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Association Bias (ROLF DOBELLI)

WHY EXPERIENCE CAN DAMAGE OUR JUDGEMENT Kevin has presented his division’s results to the company’s board on three occasions. Each time, things have gone...

21 July, 2021

Melancholy of Jason Kleander, Poet in Kommagini, A.D. 595 (C. P. CAVAFY)

The ageing of my body and my beauty is a wound from a merciless knife. I'm not resigned to it at all. I turn to you,...

20 July, 2021

What is luxury?

When joining the ‘luxury society’ group, one of the interesting questions they asked was to provide your own definition of luxury. My response to...

19 July, 2021

Anger is just a vomit

In controlling you repress, in transformation you express. But there is no need to express it on somebody else because the “somebody else”...

18 July, 2021

Fear-induced snobbery (ALLAIN DE BOTTON)

To try to understand the problem, it is perhaps only ever fear that is to blame. Belittling others is no pastime for those...

17 July, 2021

Childhood deprived of love… (IRVIN YALOM)

Love between parents begets love for the children. Occasionally, one hears tales of parents whose great love for each other consumes all the...

16 July, 2021

The best home seemed to him to be where no injustice is attached to the acquisition of property, no distrust to keeping it, and no repentance to spending it. (PLUTARCH)

The Dinner of the Seven Wise Men It seems to me, Aesop, that your idea of a home is limited to these protective coverings...

15 July, 2021

Your mistress may deem you colder than ice

If my precepts are of any avail, if, by my voice, Apollo teaches aught that may be of use to mortal men, when...

14 July, 2021

Life is now

Ominito explained the importance of Zen places on the moment. “It is difficult for the Western mind to understand Zen primarily because of...

13 July, 2021

You learn

After a while you learn the subtle difference Between holding a hand and chaining a soul, And you learn that love doesn’t mean leaning And company...

12 July, 2021