Writers make us feel sympathetic to ideas and feelings

• People who are aware of their own biases are not better able to overcome them. Our intuitive thinking is just as prone to overconfidence, extreme predictions, and the planning fallacy.
• According to scientists, intelligent people have a larger bias blind spot. They ...

Humans have always experienced boredom and loneliness and a need for acceptance. The feel of feelings is the same as it has always been.

However, how we describe those feelings has changed. For example, boredom and loneliness were once seen as part of life. Now they are described as p...

As children, we are taught to live by an ever-expanding set of rules. The rules keep us safe. They limit our downside during a fragile period of our lives. They also limit our upside, as they create artificial constraints on our movement and collisions as we travel through the universe.

Ru...