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Productivity
fromFortune
19 hours agoAI is frying our brains - here's what leaders need to do about It | Fortune
AI is intensifying work and contributing to burnout rather than saving time.
Artificial intelligence
fromPsychology Today
3 days agoAre We Moving From Cognitive to Relationship Offloading?
Meta is creating a 3D AI persona of Mark Zuckerberg to enhance employee access and streamline decision-making.
Parenting
fromSilicon Canals
5 hours agoThere's a specific kind of adult who can't enjoy a gift without immediately calculating what it cost the giver, and it isn't thoughtfulness, it's a residual scan from a childhood where everything received was followed by a reminder of the sacrifice it required - Silicon Canals
Receiving gifts can trigger guilt and anxiety due to past experiences of associating gifts with hidden costs.
Mindfulness
fromSilicon Canals
1 day agoPsychology says the people who come across as genuinely disciplined aren't grinding through willpower or running on motivation, they're the ones who quietly removed the decisions from their day a long time ago, and what looks like iron self-control from the outside is just a life designed so the hard choice rarely shows up - Silicon Canals
Building a disciplined life relies on well-designed systems rather than sheer willpower or grit.
fromPsychology Today
4 days agoHow Mistakes Springboard Conscientious People's Growth
Many mistakes move us forward more than backward. Conscientious people often experience a springboard effect following mistakes, whereby fixing the mistakes accelerates growth faster than if they'd never made any missteps.
Productivity
Relationships
fromSilicon Canals
6 days agoI'm 37 and I finally understand why I keep saying yes to things I want to say no to - psychology calls it "fawning" and once you see it you can't unsee it - Silicon Canals
Fawning behavior leads to difficulty in saying no, causing resentment despite self-awareness and understanding of its irrationality.
#mindset
Mindfulness
fromSilicon Canals
2 days agoIf you've been trying to change your life and keep ending up in the same patterns, the problem probably isn't the plan, it's that the part of you making the plan is the same part of you that built the life you're trying to change - Silicon Canals
Current mindset limits the ability to create meaningful change; the same self cannot solve the problems it created.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
3 days agoSome people don't stay quiet in arguments because they're calm, they stay quiet because they ran the math years ago and concluded that saying the thing costs more than swallowing it, and they've been paying the cheaper price so long they forgot it was a choice - Silicon Canals
Silence in arguments often results from an automatic cost-benefit analysis rather than emotional mastery or composure.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
2 days agoPsychology says deep thinkers don't realize the reason they feel disconnected from their own life isn't depression - it's that observation became a shelter they forgot how to leave - Silicon Canals
Chronic detachment often misdiagnosed as depression or stress may stem from a learned behavior of observing rather than experiencing life.
#decision-making
Mindfulness
fromPsychology Today
4 days agoWhat to Do When You Don't Know What to Do
Accepting mistakes and being honest with oneself are crucial for navigating uncertainty in decision-making.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
2 days agoThe people who answer 'I don't mind, whatever you want' aren't being easygoing. They're running a private calculation that having a preference has cost them more than it has ever earned them - Silicon Canals
Expressing preferences can feel costly, leading some individuals to suppress their desires to avoid conflict.
#intelligence
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
3 days agoYou know you've encountered a high-level thinker if they make you feel smarter after the conversation, not dumber - because mediocre intellects use their intelligence to win, and high-level thinkers use it to help, and the real test of a great mind isn't how impressive they sound but how many people leave rooms they were in feeling more capable than they walked in - Silicon Canals
Real intelligence enhances others' understanding rather than intimidating them, fostering collaboration and mutual growth.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
3 weeks agoResearch suggests that high intelligence doesn't protect against bad decisions - it makes people better at constructing convincing justifications for the bad decisions they were already going to make - Silicon Canals
Higher intelligence can lead to greater polarization rather than alignment on contested facts.
fromPsychology Today
2 months agoDaily Prophets: How Your Brain Predicts the Future
I am a worrier, and have been for most of my life. At some point, someone dear and smart teased me that I worry about the wrong things. The things that hit me, she noted, were never the things I worried about. For a while that left me feeling like an incompetent worrier-until my research caught up. I realized that the things I worry about often don't end up hurting me precisely because worrying helps me diffuse them ahead of time.
Psychology
fromOpen Culture
2 months agoWhy Some People Think in Words, While Others Think in Pictures & Feelings
Take the sur­prise some have expressed in recent years upon find­ing out that the expres­sion to "pic­ture" some­thing in one's head isn't just a fig­ure of speech. You mean that peo­ple "pic­tur­ing an apple," say, haven't been just think­ing about an apple, but actu­al­ly see­ing one in their heads? The inabil­i­ty to do that has a name: aphan­ta­sia, from the Greek word phan­ta­sia, "image," and prefix - a, "with­out."
Psychology
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