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NostradamusGPT: The Psychology of Prophecy and How to Break Free from the Prison of Predictive Technologies
NostradamusGPT: The Psychology of Prophecy and How to Break Free from the Prison of Predictive Technologies

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Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing on Breaking Free from the Prisons We Choose to Live Inside
Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing on Breaking Free from the Prisons We Choose to Live Inside

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James Baldwin on How Love (Finally) Finds You
James Baldwin on How Love (Finally) Finds You

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Elizabeth Gilbert on Love, Loss, and How to Move Through Grief as Grief Moves Through You
Elizabeth Gilbert on Love, Loss, and How to Move Through Grief as Grief Moves Through You

“Grief is a force of energy that cannot be controlled or predicted. It comes and goes on its own schedule. Grief does not obey your plans, or your wishes. Grief will do whatever it wants to you, whenever it wants to. In that regard, Grief has a lot in common with Love.”

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How Memory Makes Us and Breaks Truth: The Rashomon Effect and the Science of How Memories Form and Falter in the Brain
How Memory Makes Us and Breaks Truth: The Rashomon Effect and the Science of How Memories Form and Falter in the Brain

“We are our memory… that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.”

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Probability Theory Pioneer Mark Kac on the Unpredictability of Creativity and the Two Types of Geniuses
Probability Theory Pioneer Mark Kac on the Unpredictability of Creativity and the Two Types of Geniuses

“Creative people live in two worlds. One is the ordinary world which they share with others and in which they are not in any special way set apart from their fellow men. The other is private and it is in this world that the creative acts take place.”

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Hermann Hesse on How to Read a Book and How to Read Yourself
Hermann Hesse on How to Read a Book and How to Read Yourself

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The Madman Who Saved Mothers: The Invention of Handwashing and the Bittersweet True Love Story Behind ‘Frankenstein’
The Madman Who Saved Mothers: The Invention of Handwashing and the Bittersweet True Love Story Behind ‘Frankenstein’

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How to Doubt Your Way into a Truer Life
How to Doubt Your Way into a Truer Life

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Sleeping Beauties: David Byrne on Why Transformative Ideas Fall Dormant and How They Awaken to Change the World
Sleeping Beauties: David Byrne on Why Transformative Ideas Fall Dormant and How They Awaken to Change the World

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