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What Life Expects from Us

August 11, 2020 By Jessica Filed Under: Personal growth, Things I'm reading

“… it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.” — Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning We’re six months into the COVID-19 crisis. It seems like the world has gone insane in that time. I don’t know about you, but I have days where I want […]

Removing the Social Media Temptation

August 7, 2020 By Jessica Filed Under: Personal growth, Things I'm reading

I was flipping through one of my (many, MANY) notebooks this morning and found this note on the book Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman: Self-control and cognitive efforts are forms of mental work. Studies have shown that people who are simultaneously challenged by a cognitive task and by a temptation are more likely […]

Truth and Lying Birds

August 6, 2020 By Jessica Filed Under: Communication, Things I'm reading

I’m listening to the audiobook version of Malcolm Gladwell’s Talking to Strangers right now — and it’s disturbing. There is a lot more lying and general deception going on amongst us humans than we’d like to admit. And we’re not very good at telling when when people are lying to our faces. Interestingly, though, Gladwell […]

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