Tag: psychology
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Asshole conversations.
This is the conversational asshole I invite you to be. To move from small talk to asking a serious question, and back to making silly jokes. To create little games and ask others to join without sharing the rules. To disclose strange parts of yourself and hide the ones most routinely shared. I invite you…
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Well….it’s growing on me.
So. The goatee is progressing swimmingly thanks for asking. Here is the backstory. A while ago I decided on a whim that I was going to grow my hair long. Really long.Im talking ponytail. Off I set, a millimetre at a time. Encouraging it. Massaging it. Squeeeezing it out. Grey hair extruding from my scalp with the slow satisfaction…
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The reasons some people dont stick with a meditation practice (and why others do).
This paper looked at factors affecting meditation persistence in a population of 953 people in the United States (via online surveys). The authors framed “persistence” within two categories: the number of lifetime practice sessions and current practice frequency. The authors of the paper found that people who were first exposed to a meditation practice through…
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MK Ultra.
I first heard about MK Ultra when listening to a Joe Rogan podcast a couple of years back, and immediately threw it in my cognitive wastepaper basket as being yet another fringe conspiracy theory. Into the loony bin with you. But it turns out this improbable and implausible story is totally true. And it all…
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