A novel within a novel, where a mysterious storyteller weaves a tale of love, betrayal, and murder, blurring the lines between fact and fiction.

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

A surreal and dreamlike tale of a young boy trapped in a labyrinthine library, where the boundaries between reality and fantasy dissolve.

The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami

A psychological exploration of a man's obsession with a mysterious woman, where the truth is hidden behind layers of deception and desire.

The Woman in the Dunes by Kōbō Abe

A dark comedy that follows a hapless policeman's investigation into a murder, where the absurdity and humor mask a sinister truth.

The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien

A fantastical tale of the Devil's arrival in Soviet Moscow, told through multiple narrators, each with their own agenda and secrets.

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

Find more at '<a href="https://t.me/booksofthrill">Books of Thrill</a>' Telegram channel. <ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Discuss fascinating storylines or engage in debates</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Share your thoughts on similar thrilling reads</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Discover more hidden literary gems</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Uncover the real-life inspirations for fictional thrills</li></ul>And much more.Don't miss a single post. Join a community of bookish thrill-seekers!

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The best gift we can give our children is the ability to control their attention and choose their life.

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Autonomy: The ability to make uncoerced decisions.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Competence:  The ability to learn and improve.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Relatedness: The ability to relate meaningfully to others.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Nir Eyal calls these needs <a href="https://www.scienceofpeople.com/indistractable-kids-trouble-focusing/">Psychological Vitamins</a>. </li></ul>

Children need Autonomy, Competence, and Relatedness to flourish

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Sadly, lots of youngsters aren’t getting autonomy, competence or relatedness things in their offline lives. </li><li class="ql-align-justify">At school, they are stifled by rules. At home, they bear the burden of their parents’ expectations and risk being labeled failures if they don’t do well at school which fail to stimulate their imaginations. </li><li class="ql-align-justify">The online world becomes the only space they have to roam freely and interact with their friends independently. </li></ul>

Why children turn to the online world?

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Technology isn't inherently bad. It can be used to facilitate free play, which is crucial for children's development.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">The author's daughter uses online tools like Zoom to play games with friends, allowing for social interaction and unstructured play even when physically apart.</li></ul>

1. Leverage Technology for Free Play

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Differentiate between content that promotes creation and content that leads to passive consumption.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Encourage children to use technology for activities that build skills and knowledge, such as educational games or creative projects, rather than just consuming media.</li></ul>

2. Filter for Creation rather than Consumption

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Unstructured play is essential for children's social and cognitive development.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Schedule regular playdates or free play sessions where children can interact with peers without the oversight of adults. This helps them learn social skills and develop independence.</li></ul>

3. Promote Unstructured Play

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Children learn by observing their parents. Model the behavior you want to see in your children.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Show your children how you manage distractions by setting your own timers and sticking to your schedules. This consistency helps reinforce the importance of being indistractable.</li></ul>

4. Model Indistractable Behavior

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Traction is the opposite of Distraction.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Help children understand the importance of scheduling and making time for activities.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Involve children in setting rules and parameters for screen time and other activities to foster a sense of autonomy and responsibility.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Instead of imposing strict limits, discuss and agree on reasonable screen time rules together. This collaborative approach helps children understand and respect the rules.</li></ul>

5. Make Time for Traction Together

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">A pact is a self-imposed rule that includes a consequence for breaking it.</li><li>Effort Pacts: Make distractions harder to access.: Keeping the phone in another room while studying.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Price Pacts: Attach a monetary or meaningful consequence.: If the child breaks the pact, they lose a privilege or have to do an extra chore.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Write Down the Pact: Document the pact and the consequences of breaking it.</li></ul>

6. Teach Children to Make Their Own Pacts

Practical advice for parents from the book "Indistractable" by Nir Eyal.

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School taught us specific subjects, like maths and history. But we weren't taught: How to sell Or how to build relationships Or how to negotiate Or how to take care of our mental health Or how to network Or how to deal with personal finance These most important situations we face as adults were never discussed with us when we were students. We weren't taught these skills in school, and this makes all the success stories we hear about seem out of reach; it makes us feel dumb. We aren't dumb, we just don't know how to work the system. Your school taught you how to run in the race; it didn't teach you how to win. And that's what this book is for. To help you win the race. Packed with useful advice gleaned from his own journey as an entrepreneur and content creator, this book by Raj Shamani is a must-read.

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You misrepresented someone's argument to make it easier to attack. By exaggerating, misrepresenting, or just completely fabricating someone's argument, it's much easier to present your own position as being reasonable, but this kind of dishonesty serves to undermine honest rational debate.

Strawman

Because you found something difficult to understand, or are unaware of how it works, you made out like it's probably not true. Complex subjects like biological evolution through natural selection require some amount of understanding before one is able to make an informed judgement about the subject at hand; this fallacy is usually used in place of that understanding.

Personal incredulity

You assumed that one part of something has to be applied to all, or other, parts of it; or that the whole must apply to its parts.Often when something is true for the part it does also apply to the whole, or vice versa, but the crucial difference is whether there exists good evidence to show that this is the case. Because we observe consistencies in things, our thinking can become biased so that we presume consistency to exist where it does not.

Composition/division

You presumed that a real or perceived relationship between things means that one is the cause of the other.Many people confuse correlation (things happening together or in sequence) for causation (that one thing actually causes the other to happen). Sometimes correlation is coincidental, or it may be attributable to a common cause.

False cause

You used a double meaning or ambiguity of language to mislead or misrepresent the truth.Politicians are often guilty of using ambiguity to mislead and will later point to how they were technically not outright lying if they come under scrutiny. The reason that it qualifies as a fallacy is that it is intrinsically misleading.

Ambiguity

You presumed that because a claim has been poorly argued, or a fallacy has been made, that the claim itself must be wrong.It is entirely possible to make a claim that is false yet argue with logical coherency for that claim, just as it is possible to make a claim that is true and justify it with various fallacies and poor arguments.

The fallacy fallacy

You judged something as either good or bad on the basis of where it comes from, or from whom it came.This fallacy avoids the argument by shifting focus onto something's or someone's origins. It's similar to an ad hominem fallacy in that it leverages existing negative perceptions to make someone's argument look bad, without actually presenting a case for why the argument itself lacks merit.

Genetic

You said that if we allow A to happen, then Z will eventually happen too, therefore A should not happen.The problem with this reasoning is that it avoids engaging with the issue at hand, and instead shifts attention to extreme hypotheticals. Because no proof is presented to show that such extreme hypotheticals will in fact occur, this fallacy has the form of an appeal to emotion fallacy by leveraging fear. In effect the argument at hand is unfairly tainted by unsubstantiated conjecture.

Slippery slope

You said that 'runs' occur to statistically independent phenomena such as roulette wheel spins.This commonly believed fallacy can be said to have helped create an entire city in the desert of Nevada USA. Though the overall odds of a 'big run' happening may be low, each spin of the wheel is itself entirely independent from the last. So whilst there may be a very small chance that heads will come up 20 times in a row if you flip a coin, the chances of heads coming up on each individual flip remain 50/50, and aren't influenced by what happened before.

The gambler's fallacy

You attempted to manipulate an emotional response in place of a valid or compelling argument.Appeals to emotion include appeals to fear, envy, hatred, pity, pride, and more. It's important to note that sometimes a logically coherent argument may inspire emotion or have an emotional aspect, but the problem and fallacy occurs when emotion is used instead of a logical argument, or to obscure the fact that no compelling rational reason exists for one's position.

Appeal to emotion

You asked a question that had a presumption built into it so that it couldn't be answered without appearing guilty.Loaded question fallacies are particularly effective at derailing rational debates because of their inflammatory nature - the recipient of the loaded question is compelled to defend themselves and may appear flustered or on the back foot.

Loaded question

You cherry-picked a data cluster to suit your argument, or found a pattern to fit a presumption.This 'false cause' fallacy is coined after a marksman shooting randomly at barns and then painting bullseye targets around the spot where the most bullet holes appear, making it appear as if he's a really good shot. Clusters naturally appear by chance, but don't necessarily indicate that there is a causal relationship.

The texas sharpshooter

You said that because an authority thinks something, it must therefore be true.It's important to note that this fallacy should not be used to dismiss the claims of experts, or scientific consensus. Appeals to authority are not valid arguments, but nor is it reasonable to disregard the claims of experts who have a demonstrated depth of knowledge unless one has a similar level of understanding and/or access to empirical evidence.

Appeal to authority

You claimed that a compromise, or middle point, between two extremes must be the truth.Much of the time the truth does indeed lie between two extreme points, but this can bias our thinking: sometimes a thing is simply untrue and a compromise of it is also untrue. Half way between truth and a lie, is still a lie.

Middle ground

You presented two alternative states as the only possibilities, when in fact more possibilities exist.Also known as the false dilemma, this insidious tactic has the appearance of forming a logical argument, but under closer scrutiny it becomes evident that there are more possibilities than the either/or choice that is presented. Binary, black-or-white thinking doesn't allow for the many different variables, conditions, and contexts in which there would exist more than just the two possibilities put forth. It frames the argument misleadingly and obscures rational, honest debate.

Black-or-white

You used a personal experience or an isolated example instead of a sound argument or compelling evidence.It's often much easier for people to believe someone's testimony as opposed to understanding complex data and variation across a continuum. Quantitative scientific measures are almost always more accurate than personal perceptions and experiences, but our inclination is to believe that which is tangible to us, and/or the word of someone we trust over a more 'abstract' statistical reality.

Anecdotal

You avoided having to engage with criticism by turning it back on the accuser - you answered criticism with criticism.Pronounced too-kwo-kweh. Literally translating as 'you too' this fallacy is also known as the appeal to hypocrisy. It is commonly employed as an effective red herring because it takes the heat off someone having to defend their argument, and instead shifts the focus back on to the person making the criticism.

Tu quoque

You said that the burden of proof lies not with the person making the claim, but with someone else to disprove.The burden of proof lies with someone who is making a claim, and is not upon anyone else to disprove. The inability, or disinclination, to disprove a claim does not render that claim valid, nor give it any credence whatsoever. However it is important to note that we can never be certain of anything, and so we must assign value to any claim based on the available evidence, and to dismiss something on the basis that it hasn't been proven beyond all doubt is also fallacious reasoning.

Burden of proof

You made what could be called an appeal to purity as a way to dismiss relevant criticisms or flaws of your argument.In this form of faulty reasoning one's belief is rendered unfalsifiable because no matter how compelling the evidence is, one simply shifts the goalposts so that it wouldn't apply to a supposedly 'true' example. This kind of post-rationalization is a way of avoiding valid criticisms of one's argument.

No true scotsman

You argued that because something is 'natural' it is therefore valid, justified, inevitable, good or ideal.Many 'natural' things are also considered 'good', and this can bias our thinking; but naturalness itself doesn't make something good or bad. For instance murder could be seen as very natural, but that doesn't mean it's good or justifiable.

Appeal to nature

You presented a circular argument in which the conclusion was included in the premise.This logically incoherent argument often arises in situations where people have an assumption that is very ingrained, and therefore taken in their minds as a given. Circular reasoning is bad mostly because it's not very good.

Begging the question

You appealed to popularity or the fact that many people do something as an attempted form of validation.The flaw in this argument is that the popularity of an idea has absolutely no bearing on its validity.If it did, then the Earth would have made itself flat for most of history to accommodate this popular belief.

Bandwagon

You moved the goalposts or made up an exception when your claim was shown to be false.Humans are funny creatures and have a foolish aversion to being wrong. Rather than appreciate the benefits of being able to change one's mind through better understanding, many will invent ways to cling to old beliefs. One of the most common ways that people do this is to post-rationalize a reason why what they thought to be true must remain to be true.

Special pleading

You attacked your opponent's character or personal traits in an attempt to undermine their argument.Ad hominem attacks can take the form of overtly attacking somebody, or more subtly casting doubt on their character or personal attributes as a way to discredit their argument. The result of an ad hom attack can be to undermine someone's case without actually having to engage with it.

Ad hominem

A logical fallacy is a flaw in reasoning. Logical fallacies are like tricks or illusions of thought, and they're often very sneakily used by politicians and the media to fool people. Don't be fooled! This website has been designed to help you identify and call out dodgy logic wherever it may raise its ugly, incoherent head.

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"It didn't matter one bit if I was the only person dancing, I was so into supporting my friends' art."

"It was important to me to be the straight-A student. In a way, I was a rebel by getting good grades, because most of the stoners and the druggies were getting no grades."

"it started dawning on me that you don't have to be Al Green or have an incredible Freddie Mercury voice to have a place in the world of music. Rhyming and developing a character were another way to do it."

"I instinctively knew that the miracle of manipulating energy and tapping into an infinite source of power and harnessing it in a small space with your friends was what I had been put on this earth to do."

"At last, I had something to do that had meaning and purpose. I felt I could put every idea and stupid little philosophy that I had into a song."

"It's so lonely when you don't even know yourself."

"It's always important to give things away; it creates good energy. If you have a closet full of clothes, and you try to keep them all, your life will get very small. But if you have a full closet and someone sees something they like, if you give it to them, the world is a better place."

"I recognize when I feel a sense of entitlement you get used to having things your way - but I also recognize the absurdity of that, and I'm willing to laugh at myself and to acknowledge when I'm being a spoiled brat and when I'm not. I found it fascinating and peculiar, more than suddenly thinking I was better than or holier them."

"When you're at odds with yourself, it's hard to create. Sometimes the writing process is as easy as opening up the window and letting in the breeze. And sometimes it's like chiseling away at a block of granite with a pencil."

"You're feeling like shit? Go get out of yourself and do something for someone else, voila, you don't feel like shit anymore. You're confused and you're driving yourself crazy? Go call a guy who's got three days sober and has no clue what to do. The minute you get out of your self-centered mind-set, you're instantly freed of your own pain."

"It's that appreciation of every emotion in the spectrum that that I live for. I don't go out of my way to create it, but I have found a way to embrace all of it. It's not about putting down any of these experiences, because now that I've had them, and now that I'm almost four years sober, I'm in a position to be of service to hundreds of other suffering people."

In this "vivid and inspiring" New York Times bestseller (Newsweek), the Red Hot Chili Peppers' lead singer and songwriter shares a searingly honest account of life in the rock scene's fast lane—from the darkness into the light. In 1983, four self-described "knuckleheads" burst out of the mosh-pitted mosaic of the neo-punk rock scene in L.A. with their own unique brand of cosmic hardcore mayhem funk. Over twenty years later, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, against all odds, have become one of the most successful bands in the world. Though the band has gone through many incarnations, Anthony Kiedis, the group's lyricist and dynamic lead singer, has been there for the whole roller-coaster ride. In Scar Tissue, Kiedis delivers a compelling life story from a man "in love with everything"—the darkness, the death, the disease. Even his descent into drug addiction was a part of that journey, another element transformed into art. Whether he's honoring the influence of the beautiful, strong women who have been his muses or remembering the roaring crowds of Woodstock and the Dalai Lama's humble compound, Kiedis shares a compelling story about the price of success and excess. Scar Tissue is a story of dedication and debauchery, of intrigue and integrity, of recklessness and redemption—a story that could only have come out of the world of rock.

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Let's focus

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People often say: "I'm starting a new life. Starting Monday, of course." But is that really a NEW LIFE? 🧐

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<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Consider the "opportunity cost" of a decision by evaluating what will be given up by choosing a particular option.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">It is not just about monetary costs but also includes time and other resources.</li></ul>

Consider Opportunity Costs

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">We tend to oversimplify decisions into binary options.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Explore multiple options simultaneously, leading to higher-quality work by allowing for a broader exploration of possibilities and reducing attachment to any single option.</li><li class="ql-align-justify ql-indent-1">Enhanced Creativity: Exploring different paths can spark creative solutions.</li><li class="ql-align-justify ql-indent-1">Risk Mitigation: If one track fails, others might still succeed.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">However, be wary of choice overload, as having too many options can paralyze decision-making.</li></ul>

Multi-Track for Better Solutions

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Explore solutions others have found for similar problems to gain insights and ideas.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Look into different disciplines to discover solutions that may not be obvious initially.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Gain external perspective by asking indicative questions to understand how others in similar situations have navigated challenges.</li></ul>

Leverage Existing Solutions

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Consider allowing someone else to play devil's advocate to challenge your choices.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Encourage disagreement by building a case against your decision to analyze logical constraints.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Take an observer perspective by stepping outside of your immediate viewpoint to analyze the situation as an impartial outsider. </li></ul>

Look out for Biases in your Decision-Making

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Utilize "ooching" by testing ideas on a small scale before committing fully.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">For instance, tech startups release beta versions of their apps to a select group of users to identify bugs and collect feedback.</li></ul>

Conduct Small Experiments

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Many of our choices are hijacked by what we believe is important in the moment that we’re faced with them.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Shift focus to long-term consequences by imagining outcomes from a future perspective.</li></ul>

Consider Future Consequences

Ask yourself how you would feel about your decision 10 minutes, 10 months, and 10 years from now.

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Consider a range of possible outcomes each with an associated probability of success.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Pre-mortems: Imagine that your decision has already failed and work backward to identify what could have caused the failure. Use this information to adjust probabilities and mitigate overconfidence.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Add margins of safety to timelines to account for uncertainties. Allocate additional resources where uncertainties are high.</li></ul>

Embrace Uncertainty in Decision Outcomes

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">When we do a certain thing every day we often don’t notice the gradual changes that, over time, can amount to a drastic situation.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Tripwires are predefined conditions or thresholds that, when met, prompt a specific action or decision - such as setting budget limits or deadlines.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">This approach enables responding proactively rather than reactively - by creating signals to interrupt autopilot behaviour and prompt corrective actions.</li></ul>

Implement Decision-Making Triggers by Establishing Tripwires

<ol><li class="ql-align-justify">Widen Your Options: multi-tracking, learning from others</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Reality-Test Your Assumptions: seek disconfirming evidence, conduct small experiments</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Attain Distance Before Deciding:  10/10/10 rule, seek outsider perspective</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Prepare to Be Wrong: conduct premortems, set tripwires and make contingency plans</li></ol>

Summary: WRAP Process

How to make better choices in life and work.

Chip and Dan Heath, the bestselling authors of Switch and Made to Stick, tackle one of the most critical topics in our work and personal lives: how to make better decisions. 　    Research in psychology has revealed that our decisions are disrupted by an array of biases and irrationalities: We’re overconfident. We seek out information that supports us and downplay information that doesn’t. We get distracted by short-term emotions. When it comes to making choices, it seems, our brains are flawed instruments. Unfortunately, merely being aware of these shortcomings doesn’t fix the problem, any more than knowing that we are nearsighted helps us to see. The real question is: How can we do better?    In Decisive, the Heaths, based on an exhaustive study of the decision-making literature, introduce a four-step process designed to counteract these biases. Written in an engaging and compulsively readable style, Decisive takes readers on an unforgettable journey, from a rock star’s ingenious decision-making trick to a CEO’s disastrous acquisition, to a single question that can often resolve thorny personal decisions.    Along the way, we learn the answers to critical questions like these: How can we stop the cycle of agonizing over our decisions? How can we make group decisions without destructive politics? And how can we ensure that we don’t overlook precious opportunities to change our course?　    Decisive is the Heath brothers’ most powerful—and important—book yet, offering fresh strategies and practical tools enabling us to make better choices. Because the right decision, at the right moment, can make all the difference.

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Chip Heath is the professor of Organizational Behavior in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University.He received his B.S. degree in Industrial Engineering from Texas A&M University and his Ph.D. in Psychology from Stanford.He co-wrote a book titled Switch How to Change Things When Change Is Hard with his brother Dan Heath.

Chip Heath

Dan Heath is a Senior Fellow at Duke University's CASE center. Dan has an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, and a B.A. from the Plan II Honors Program from the University of Texas at Austin.He co-wrote a book titled Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard with his brother Chip Heath.

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Resistance is the internal force that prevents us from pursuing our creative dreams and goals. It manifests as procrastination, self-doubt, fear, and distractions. Recognizing resistance is the first step to overcoming it and achieving our true potential.

Understanding Resistance

Pressfield differentiates between amateurs and professionals. Professionals show up every day, regardless of motivation or inspiration. They are disciplined, committed, and treat their creative work as a serious, daily practice. This mindset helps overcome resistance.

The Role of The Professional

Establishing consistent habits is crucial in combating resistance. By creating a routine and sticking to it, we can build momentum and make progress even on days when we don’t feel like it. Small, regular efforts accumulate into significant achievements over time.

The Power of Habits

Fear is a natural part of the creative process. Pressfield emphasizes that everyone experiences fear, but professionals learn to act despite it. Courage is not the absence of fear but the willingness to face it and keep working towards our goals.

Overcoming Fear

Steven Pressfield’s “The War of Art” reveals how to conquer internal resistance, embrace discipline, and unlock your creative potential for extraordinary achievements.

What keeps so many of us from doing what we long to do? Why is there a
 naysayer within? How can we avoid the roadblocks of any creative 
endeavor—be it starting up a dream business venture, writing a novel, or
 painting a masterpiece?
The War of Art identifies the enemy that every one of us must face, 
outlines a battle plan to conquer this internal foe, then pinpoints just
 how to achieve the greatest success.
The War of Art emphasizes the resolve needed to recognize and 
overcome the obstacles of ambition and then effectively shows how to 
reach the highest level of creative discipline.
Think of it as tough love . . . for yourself.

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