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We often look at our impulses as a bother. Things to be overcome and controlled, but what if we are looking at them the wrong way?
Hope is not as soft or as passive an emotion as we think. Here’s how ‘The Shawshank Redemption’ can teach us the philosophy and function of hope as a response to possibility.
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Your mind is built to process contradictory, irrational ideas. Use that to reach new intellectual heights.
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Oasis had it right: stop crying your heart out. Psychologist Paul Bloom argues that empathy may be working against our best interests, and that compassion may be a better strategy.
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Dreams are not rational, neither are fantasy novels and comic books and yet they’re immensely valuable in processing our thoughts, feelings and moral quandaries. Does Tarot do the same?