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Politics today—with all of the divisiveness, polarization, and paralysis we’ve experienced—has many negative connotations. But in the best sense of the word, politics is still about persuasion and marshaling public will to advance ideas that serve the common good.
Getting Political Is Good for Everyone
ssir.org
It is difficult to escape the focus of our own attention—difficult to consider what it is we may not be considering—and this is one of the reasons why we so often mispredict our emotional responses to future events.
Stumbling on Happiness
Daniel Gilbert
What a society chooses to measure is always tied into that society's shared narrative about the way the world works and what is valuable within it. Looking around at how things are measured and quantified can reveal a society's dominant and often implicit (or unarticulated) meta-theories.
Education in a Time Between Worlds
Zachary Stein
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