Sorry, can’t have a blog without a little philosophy. There are so many interesting frames of thinking from religion, history, and individuals.
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Narrative Thread: What Do We Truly Want and Need?
As we graduate and learn more about the world. We also find ourselves being flooded by new opportunities. With more responsibility we learn about retirement planning, self-promoting online, and about supplements for nutrition. There are ample opportunities that arise in life that might we feel pressure to do. It can become overwhelming to balance it…
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The Psychology of Time and How it Influences Our Decisions
American psychologist and a professor emeritus at Stanford University, Philip Zimbardo(famous for the 1971 Stanford prison experiment) gave a Ted Talk about the psychology of time. The psychology of time can be summed into time perspectives, past, present, and future, which we use to make decisions. People who focus solely in the past take into…
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How To Be Happy: From a Capitalist, Biologist, and an Economist
Money, happiness, or finding meaning in life, we all have something we strive for. Yuval Noah Harari’s “Sapiens” takes the readers through history from the first signs of religion, the agricultural revolution, and the industrial revolution. On the chapter on happiness, he takes us through what we know about happiness. There are different ways of…
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