Reads tagged with “psychology”

Against Positive Thinking: Uncertainty as the Secret of Happiness

Exploring the “negative path” to well-being.

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5 Things Every Presenter Should Know About People, Animated

How to master the art of moving words that move people.

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18-Year-Old Sylvia Plath on Loving Everybody and Living with Curiosity

“Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me.”

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Christoph Niemann: Insecurity Is Essential to Great Design

Inside the mind of one of today’s finest visual communicators.

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Behavioral Economist Dan Ariely on the Relationship Between Creativity and Dishonesty

“Creativity can help us tell better stories — stories that allow us to be even more dishonest but still think of ourselves as wonderfully honest people.”

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Sartre on Why “Being-in-the-World-Ness” is the Key to the Imagination

On the figure-ground relationship between the real and the irreal.

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The Cultural History and Adaptive Function of Boredom

What Madame Bovary has to do with MRI and rock’n’roll.

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Fatherly Advice from Famous Dads

“The secret of success is concentrating interest in life… interest in the small things of nature… In other words to be fully awake to everything.”

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Summer Reading List 2012: 10 Essential Books for Cognitive Sunshine

The science of creativity, the creativity of science, and what your internal clock has to do with Saudi Arabia.

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Live the Questions: Rilke on Embracing Uncertainty and Doubt as a Stabilizing Force

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue.”

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Reads tagged with “psychology”

Exploring the “negative path” to well-being.

How to master the art of moving words that move people.

“Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me.”

Inside the mind of one of today’s finest visual communicators.

“Creativity can help us tell better stories — stories that allow us to be even more dishonest but still think of ourselves as wonderfully honest people.”

On the figure-ground relationship between the real and the irreal.

What Madame Bovary has to do with MRI and rock’n’roll.

“The secret of success is concentrating interest in life… interest in the small things of nature… In other words to be fully awake to everything.”

The science of creativity, the creativity of science, and what your internal clock has to do with Saudi Arabia.

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue.”

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