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Question: Why do so many seemingly rational human beings behave so irrationally? What makes nice people buy ivory, deny mistakes, complain, harm their health, destroy environments, and/or care about Kim Kardashian? Answer: Everything we do, [...]

“What makes you think that human beings are sentient and aware? There’s no evidence for it. Human beings never think for themselves, they find it too uncomfortable. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told – and become upset if they are exposed to any different view.”   – Michael Crichton

Are you willing to invest ten minutes a day to change your life? Or will you let dopamine convince you that learning about how dopamine manipulates behavior is a waste of time?

“He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.” – Lao Tzu

“Every man is a diary in which he writes one story while intending to write another. His humblest moment is when he compares the two.”
– Hugh B. Brown

“Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.”
– Mark Twain

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” — Marcel Proust

“Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.”
– Aldous Huxley