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Identifying and accepting our flaws, and then changingwho we are, means breaking down the very structure of our reality before rebuilding it in a new and improved form. This is not easy. It's painful and disturbing. We'll often fight with all we have to resist this kind of profound change. This is why we call those who manage it 'heroes.
The Science of Storytelling
Will Storr
Gossip, he wrote, never starts anywhere. The “linguistic equivalent and forerunner of witchcraft,” it magically multiplies without attribution, and it cannot be contained.7 It is a technique of “infrapolitics,” the invisible, subterranean territory of subordinate groups.8 In this way, gossip and rumor are similar to the disguises, tricks, and perruques—the “art of the weak”—about which the scholar and theorist Michel de Certeau writes.9 Still, rumor and gossip are also available to the powerful as well as the weak. Hoax and spin are the raw material of politics. They fuel everyday mischief while also being a practical technique of markets and governments.
Extrastatecraft
Keller Easterling
This is the basic way that we learn how to be effective in life. It’s called a learning loop: a continuous feedback cycle of needs, thinking, and action. It’s the way we learn how to act, to give us the best chance to get what we want out of any situation. Over time, that learning loop feedback cycle creates habits of belief and behavior.
Liminal Thinking
Dave Gray
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