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How to set achievable goals
How to create and stick to a schedule
How to break down large projects into smaller manageable tasks
“seeking out challenges (rather than eliminating or avoiding everything that “feels unsafe”), freeing yourself from cognitive distortions (rather than always trusting your initial feelings), and taking a generous view of other people, and looking for nuance (rather than assuming the worst about people within a simplistic us-versus-them morality).”
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The term anti-fragile describes things that have the capacity to not only tolerate stress but to flourish and grow as a result of it.
Everybody will face completely unexpected events. When we have limited exposure to unexpected events, we will likely find navigating them difficult. However,...
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The principle in philosophy and rhetoric is that one should interpret other people’s statements in their best, most reasonable form, not in the worst way possible.
When you think that your feelings are real, you may believe that other people have worse intentions than they ...
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Three great untruths are spreading throughout college campuses, high schools and many homes. These untruths are rarely taught explicitly. Instead, they are conveyed to people by the rules, practices, and norms imposed on them, often with the best intentions.
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University professors are generally left leaning in their politics, yet the percentage of professors who lean left has increased in recent years.
A more uniform group of people will cause a decline in the quality of scholarly research. Because they share a similar view, they won’t be as ri...
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Many colleges encourage students to indulge in these cognitive distortions:
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Encourage potential changes to the local education system.
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Teach your children Cognitive Behaviour Therapy so they can learn to recognize and moderate the hallmarks of emotional and motivated reasoning.
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The “dignity culture” is increasingly giving way to “victimhood culture.”
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Acknowledge that children are anti-fragile.
Encourage them to have unstructured and unsupervised time to learn how to judge risks for themselves. They should get the opportunity to learn how to deal with frustration and disagreement.
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“From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly, so that you will come to know the value of justice. I hope that you will suffer betrayal because that will teach you the importance of loyalty. Sorry to say, but I hope you will be lonely fro...
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Parents have become overly concerned with the safety of their children. This has led to less free play, less independence and more fear instilled in children, which may increase the desire for safety provided by third parties for young adults.
Keeping children safe is important, yet trying ...
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