A batch of the best highlights from what Todd's read, .
Likewise, we do not “recognize” or “detect” emotions in others. These terms imply that an emotion category has a fingerprint that exists in nature, independent of any perceiver, waiting to be found. Any scientific question about “detecting” emotion automatically presumes a certain kind of answer. In the construction mindset, I speak of perceiving an instance of emotion.
How Emotions Are Made
Lisa Feldman Barrett
The problem with keeping everything is that it quickly starts to consume a resource even more scarce than physical space: your attention.
The PARA Method
Tiago Forte
This is why the opposite of faith isn't "unbelief" but idolatry -- betraying your love, breaking your promise, serving another lord. And again, the issue of idolatry isn't here a mental game, a game of "believing" in this or that. Idolatry, says the theologian William Cavanaugh, is less about your metaphysical or ontological beliefs than a lifestyle that betrays your fundamental allegiances: