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  • People Without Meaningful Lives Seek Power Over Others

    People Without Meaningful Lives Seek Power Over Others3

    One of my more memorable exchanges with a student came in a principles of economics class. Part of the assignment for that week was chapters from Matt Ridley’s The Rational Optimist. Ridley compared the living standards of an average worker today with those of The Sun King, Louis XIV, in 1700. Some of my more ahistorical students

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  • People with Depression Use Language Differently – Here’s How to Spot It

    People with Depression Use Language Differently – Here’s How to Spot It0

    • February 6, 2018

    From the way you move and sleep, to how you interact with people around you, depression changes just about everything. It is even noticeable in the way you speak and express yourself in writing. Sometimes this “language of depression” can have a powerful effect on others. Just consider the impact of the poetry and song

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  • People with Creative Personalities Actually See the World Differently

    People with Creative Personalities Actually See the World Differently0

    What is it about a creative work such as a painting or piece of music that elicits our awe and admiration? Is it the thrill of being shown something new, something different, something the artist saw that we did not? As Pablo Picasso put it: Others have seen what is and asked why. I have

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  • People Still Prefer Working for Men

    People Still Prefer Working for Men0

    One of the stereotypes I frequently hear is that working for a male boss is preferable to working for a female boss.  But is that sentiment widely shared? Statistically speaking, both men and women prefer working for male bosses, though the percentage who do has declined over the years. Interestingly, according to Gallup, women have

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  • People Should Be Able to Calmly Discuss Politics

    People Should Be Able to Calmly Discuss Politics0

    There’s a popular pie chart that’s been going around social media for some time now. It furthers the belief that arguing about politics is always and everywhere a futile endeavor: I agree that most political arguments today—both on and off social media—quickly devolve into angry name-calling. But I think this phenomenon says something more about

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  • People Should Be Able to Argue without Getting Nasty

    People Should Be Able to Argue without Getting Nasty0

    “My brother, Cecil Edward Chesterton, was born when I was about five years old; and, after a brief pause, began to argue. He continued to argue to the end…. I am glad to think that through all those years we never stopped arguing; and we never once quarreled.” These words from G. K. Chesterton’s autobiography

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