A short educational video about what psychology tells us about how people solve problems.
08:18 min
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Seeing things that are hidden; failing to see things in plain sight. How magic exploits the everyday weirdness of perception.
People who are good at creating ideas are good at seeing connections.
We are often better served by connecting ideas than we are by protecting them.
When forgiveness experts talk in binary language (’You either forgive the wrongdoer or you are a prisoner of your own anger and hate’), they are collapsing the messy complexity of human emotions into a simplistic dichotomous equation.
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If you treat man as he appears to be, you make him worse than he is. But if you treat man as if he already were what he potentially could be, you make him what he should be.
But one of the hallmarks of emotional maturity is to recognize the validity of multiple realities and to understand that people think, feel, and react differently. Often we behave as if ‘closeness’ means ‘sameness.’
Your perspective is always limited by how much you know. Expand your knowledge and you will transform your mind.
We can control our lives by controling our perceptions.
One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, ‘Is it half full or half empty?’ So I drank the water. No more problem.
We read to know we are not alone.
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