analects noun, pl
/ˈan.ə.lɛkts/
a collection of ideas, extracts, or teachings.
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- everything is ideology 19 Sep 2022 [article] Ideologies are presented to us as distortions of reality—a synonym for ‘false belief’. But they are merely a subjective understanding of the...
- spirituality of mind 29 Aug 2022 [article] The secular world replaced the soul with a mind in the brain. Modern science of mind finds no such thing, but a collection of mini-minds whi...
- useful pharmacology 28 Jul 2022 [article] We absolutely love some drugs. Others terrify us. The difference is familiarity more than any other single thing and the result is confusion...
- our success is not our own 23 Jun 2022 [article] The success of the people we surround ourselves with directly influences our performance and sense of accomplishment. It’s worth paying atte...
- the value of relationship control 13 May 2022 [article] ‘Control’ isn’t always a bad thing in a relationship. In fact it’s necessary. We always have a level of control over our partners, we must j...
- the five stages of grief are a lie 12 Apr 2022 [article] The five stages of grief were never supposed to be an orderly process, despite the common wisdom of many clinicians. Rather, anyone can expe...
- explaining group dynamics 29 Mar 2022 [article] Group dynamics are often thought to be a complicated thing to explore. But a 50-year-old model explains much of it with only three things: a...
- the origin of insight 20 Feb 2022 [article] Lightbulb moments are one crucial key to creativity, and though they appear elusive, there are many ways to encourage the happy accidents th...
- it's not 'just' a placebo 28 Dec 2021 [article] The phrase “it’s ‘just’ a placebo effect” is used to wave away inconvenient findings that some alternative therapies work, because we don’t...
- the trap of scientific evidence 18 Dec 2021 [article] The scientific claim of ‘no evidence’ both indicates that we have evidence something isn’t true, and that no one has really looked. This fac...
- the beauty of stress 30 Nov 2021 [article] Stress is one of the most valuable pieces of biological technology we own. Don’t confuse ancient lion chases with email notifications. Our r...
- the amygdala is a distraction 13 Nov 2021 [article] The amygdala doesn’t determine your fear response. You do. Don’t focus on calming the amygdala, focus on calming your response.
- meaning and its patterns in the brain 26 Oct 2021 [article] The brain primarily links chunks of meaning into patterns of neural pathways. Pathways and patterns of meaning help us intuitively solve the...
- animals first 10 Oct 2021 [article] When we use the architecture of the brain to scaffold our thinking about the mind, we come to learn that humans are primarily animals first.
- amusing ourselves to death 21 Sep 2021 [article] Since the invention of the telegraph, information has become increasingly atomized, incoherent, and irrelevant. Our media technology encoura...
- voluntary censorship 8 Sep 2021 [article] Our education bestows on us a ‘common sense’ that narrows our vision to only those things that ‘can be said’. We censor ourselves and, as a...
- the value of the sacred 24 Aug 2021 [article] The sacred isn’t a social myth; a delusion of the religious. It is what happens when we bind moments of personal meaning and power to someth...
- in praise of the sage 19 Jul 2021 [article] Our culture spurns the ‘guru’ as a charletan and the traditionalist as a relic. Legitimate knowledge comes from reasoned observation, not in...
- emotion and the mind 2 Jun 2021 [article] The rational mind is new, and it is weak in the face of emotion. Emotions motivate us to act, but our mind takes these visceral feelings and...
- the scientific ritual 13 May 2021 [article] The scientific method is just another belief system, a ritual subject to errors of application like any other. In being thus, it has become...
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