As the new year approaches, many of us are planning the year to come. The old New Years Resolution is still a common practice, though at times the stats can seem a bit discouraging. According to one 2017 study, of the 41% of Americans who set new Years Resolution, only 9% felt like they’d successfully […]
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Many of us have an idea of morality and virtue, but if pressed to define it, I imagine we might struggle. Many of us have become disentangled from religion in the empirical modern world, and ethics can become fuzzy without the moral authority of religion to shape it for us. One should be wary of
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One of the most formative books I ever read on the fallibility of human decisionmaking was Thinking, Fast and Slow by Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahnemann. Kahnemann’s book is chock full of interesting case studies, as well as examples that exploit a bias and encourage you to try to form conclusions yourself, showcasing the sometimes hilarious,
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