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A batch of the best highlights from what Tristan's read, .
Advertisements are created with a combination of ideal lighting, professional makeup, and Photoshopped edits—even the model doesn’t look like the person in the final image. These are the supernormal stimuli of our modern world. They exaggerate features that are naturally attractive to us, and our instincts go wild as a result, driving us into excessive shopping habits, social media habits, porn habits, eating habits, and many others.
Atomic Habits
James Clear
He used phrases like, “Don’t be a pin-headed snarf. … Read the river!”2 And he did not come from an academic background.
A Tapestry of Values
Kevin C. Elliott
Rather, it’s the ability to transmit information about things that do not exist at all.
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
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