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Psychology Today
Healthy Food, Montessori, and CrossFit Are for the Rich6 min · 2021-11-08 · An evolutionary take on social inequality. · Shared by 8, including Carly
The Atlantic
What Collective Narcissism Does to Society7 min · 2021-11-06 · In everyday settings, it can keep people from listening to one another. At its worst, it might fuel violence. · Shared by 197, including Helen Lewis, Pixel, Mark Little, Therapy for Black Girls, DP, Anne Applebaum, Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA 🇺🇦, Carly, Felix M, Dr Jordan B Peterson, Arthur Brooks
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You can’t force everyone to see the value in your group, just as you can’t force everyone to see the value in you as an individual. But you can control how you see yourself, and the narrative you tell yourself about your group and the world
The Atlantic
The New Question Haunting Adoption9 min · 2021-10-19 · At a glance, America's shortage of adoptable babies may seem like a problem. But is adoption meant to provide babies for families, or families for babies? · Shared by 222, including Olga Khazan, DP, Carly
Vox
The past, present, and future of body image in America17+ min · 2021-10-18 · Millennials grew up hating their bodies. Does Gen Z have to be the same? · Shared by 125, including National NOW, Carly
Psychology Today
Of 15,000 Reasons to Stay in Relationships, Only Two Matter5 min · 2021-09-28 · New research shows how decisions to stay or leave boil down to two main reasons. · Shared by 79, including Susan Krauss Whitbourne PhD, ABPP, Carly
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People are either together (and intend to be) or they’re not (and don’t intend to be). However, another factor to consider, as Machia and Ogolsky point out, is that the reasons people stay may not be the opposite of the reasons they leave.
Fast Company
How to make new friends as an adult3 min · 2021-09-14 · These three strategies can help if you’re looking to make new and meaningful connections. · Shared by 148, including Klaus Eck, American Psychological Association, Carly, Art Markman
relationships
Harvard Business Review
The Future of Flexibility at Work18+ min · 2021-09-29 · You can tailor programs and policies to fit your employees’ needs. · Shared by 251, including Carly, James Gingerich #B2B #Technology #Influencer, Nicolas Babin, Matt Heinz, Lee Keyes, Katja Evertz, Phillip Murphy, Kate Nasser, Joe Lencioni, Massimiliano Aroffo, Under30CEO
future of work
company culture
employment
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Every job deserves some flexibility. It cannot be viewed as a scarce or privileged resource.
Aeon+Psyche
Argue better by signalling your receptiveness with these words8 min · 2021-10-04 · All too often disagreements spiral into conflict. Prevent that happening by signalling your receptiveness with these words · Shared by 398, including Esther Schindler, Carly, David Gates, Jason Silva, Mark Kaigwa
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career
language
communication skills
words
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Similar to eating sugary food or staying up late, the thrill of speaking your mind is immediate, but the long-term costs to the relationship are obscured
The Guardian
Cultivate curiosity, and really listen: how to persuade people whose politics you don’t agree with9 min · 2021-10-01 · The left wants to achieve far-reaching structural change – the sort of political reframing that requires coalition building. Are polarizing words throwing them off course? · Shared by 239, including Dietrich Inocencio, Carly, Scott Galloway, Thomas Pleil, Jonathan Kogan
relationships
psychology
The New York Times
Opinion | In Real Life, Not All Interruptions Are Rude6 min · 2021-09-26 · Sometimes people talk over each other and it totally works. · Shared by 36, including Kate Darling, anildash.com, Carly, Anne Helen Petersen, Steven Pinker, Carrie Brown
The Guardian
It’s shocking to see so many leftwingers lured to the far right by conspiracy theories3 min · 2021-09-22 · It’s not just anti-vaxxers. The themes of resisting power and regaining control of our lives have been cynically repurposed, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot · Shared by 57, including @grzewap@mastodon.social, Massimo Pigliucci, David Frum, Dr. Cara Augustenborg, George Monbiot
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Parties that once belonged on the left talk about security and stability while those on the right talk of liberation and revolt.
Psychology Today
Friends Turn Into Lovers More Often Than People Think4 min · 2021-08-17 · How individuals start a relationship is an often overlooked area of research. · Shared by 52
relationships
love
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Only 18 percent of people reported they intentionally became friends with their now-partner due to romantic attraction.
BBC News (World)
The reasons humans started kissing1 min · 2021-08-16 · Lip-on-lip kissing is not nearly as universal as we might think it is. The diversity of ways that humans kiss might reveal what it is that we find important. · Shared by 100, including Jo Hemmings 🇺🇦, Carly, Memen Isimo, Nicolas Babin
relationships
science
UnHerd
Life is one big status game7 min · 2021-09-02 · The battle to be virtuous inspires endless political cruelty · Shared by 278, including Tim, Ed West, Gabriele, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Sebastien Meunier
society
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career
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But it is also a status game, the aim being to “seek the maximal removal” of their opponent’s status: “ideally, reputational death.”
The New York Times
Opinion | One Thing We Can Agree on Is That We’re Becoming a Different Country10 min · 2021-09-08 · Tolerance and intolerance are taking on many different guises. · Shared by 49, including Jason Stanley, Dan Froomkin/PressWatchers.org, Anne Helen Petersen, Pippa Norris, Andrew Sullivan, Jeffrey Flier, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Nate Cohn
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Their goal is to create some kind of cascade, informational or reputational, by which the concept moves in their preferred direction.
The Economist
Why nations that fail women fail4 min · 2021-09-09 · And why foreign policy should pay more heed to half of humanity | Leaders · Shared by 82, including Matthew Bishop, Azeem Azhar, David Ndii, Carly, Tiffany Shlain, Stowe Boyd, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Brooks Rainwater
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