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China watchers currently worry that the more recent shift towards centralization portends an increase in draconian control. As much as this appears to be the case, we can rest assured that as the inefficiencies caused by concentrated power increase, pressure will mount for yet another wave of decentralization. China is under normal circumstances a nation striving for balance, and as such, it is always a mistake to see short‐term moves as a march in one direction only.
What's Wrong With China
Paul Midler
When competing goals get activated in your brain, it responds by inhibiting one of them, thus providing a goal shield. In other words, the losing goal doesn’t just get ignored—it gets completely deactivated.
Succeed
Heidi Grant Halvorson Ph.D. and Carol S. Dweck
You might think that religious organizations and other social groups that are more relaxed, with fewer rules and strictures, would attract a larger group of followers. Not so. “Stricter churches” achieve a larger following and are generally more successful than freewheeling ones because they ferret out free riders and offer more robust club goods.
Dopamine Nation
Anna Lembke
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