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Where the Old School saw self-deception as primarily inward-facing, defensive, and (like the general editing the map) largely self-defeating, the New School sees it as primarily outward-facing, manipulative, and ultimately self-serving.
The Elephant in the Brain
Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson
Gratitude will unlock all other virtues and is something you can get better at.
Excellent Advice for Living
Kevin Kelly
To be in favor or disgrace is to live in fear. To take the body seriously is to admit one can suffer. What does that mean, to be in favor or disgrace is to live in fear? Favor debases: we fear to lose it, fear to win it. So to be in favor or disgrace is to live in fear.
Lao Tzu
Ursula K. Le Guin
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