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fromPsychology Today
1 month agoWhat Plato Would Have Seen at the Olympics
Alysa Liu became the youngest national champion in American figure skating at 13. She made the 2022 Olympic team at 16. And she hated it. After Beijing, she retired, threw her skates in a closet, enrolled at UCLA, and spent 18 months figuring out who she was when nobody was giving her a score. Then she walked into a rink, landed a triple like she had never left, and called her coaches.
Psychology
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
2 months agoPsychology says people who always put their shopping cart back in the corral instead of leaving it in the parking lot usually display these 9 distinct qualities - Silicon Canals
Consistently returning shopping carts signals self-governance, conscientiousness, and intrinsic motivation, reflecting reliable and thoughtful character traits.
fromPsychology Today
4 months agoThe Difficult Art of Leaving What You Loved
Consider a common scenario. Someone's history slowly reveals itself: a past marked by addiction, by deception, by relationships destroyed through the same behaviors now emerging in your direction. You discover that the way they treat you mirrors how they treated others before: the lying, the sneaking, the betrayals they swore were behind them. The addiction they claimed to have conquered resurfaces in different substances, different compulsions, while they remain in denial about what anyone watching from outside could plainly see.
Philosophy
fromKqed
6 months agoA Tiny Plot: New Podcast Follows an Unhoused Community in Oakland Fighting for Self-Determination | KQED
About one third of our nation's homeless population is here in California - with close to 6,000 people on the streets each night in Oakland alone. Producer Shaina Shealy spent more than a year following a group of unhoused people at Union Point Park in Oakland as they fought for a radical idea: their own encampment where they could set their own rules.
California
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