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What we really want when we want to do the right thing
There is a reason we often struggle to know what the right thing to do is in a situation. We don’t like the pain of it.
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Temptation—what is within our power?
There’s a way we talk about temptation. We construct it as an all-consuming force we are powerless against. It isn’t.
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You are what you read
Regularly engaging in outrage on social media writes outrage into our lives. Who we are online is who we are.
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Sometimes a Joke Is Timeless
When Freud said that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, he was bringing us back from an extreme position. It is also really important to notice what that position is in extreme contrast to. I’m not into Freud, but anyone who has taken a psychology class knows why this phrase exists. Precisely because Freud…
