The Survival Trap: Beyond Problem Solving to Solution Building
Obviously, we live in a culture that hails the resilient individual, which on its own is a good…
Upgrading Your Mindware: The Thinking Tools That Schools Forget to Teach
Some of us have spent the first two decades of our lives inside a classroom, absorbing a massive…
Devil’s Advocate: Can Your Beliefs Survive This Opponent?
Most of us go through life under the impression that our beliefs, values, and worldviews are completely unshakeable.…
Would You Plug In? What Robert Nozick’s Famous Experiment Reveals About our Desires
Imagine a flawless, radiant laboratory, and inside is a revolutionary device. The scientists running it present you with…
Eric Gugua Exposes the Flaw in Judging Credibility by Wealth
True leadership can not be bought, and human dignity should never be measured by the type of car…
More Dangerous Than Evil: The High Cost of Intelligent Stupidity
So many of us possess a deeply cinematic understanding of destruction. When we think about the forces that…
The Foot-in-the-Door Trap: When Does a Small Ask Become Too Much?
It always starts with something completely reasonable. From the video I just saw, the speaker said let us…
The Tyranny of Small Decisions: The Dangerous Power of the “Just This Once” Mindset
I think it is a reasonable thing to say that: Almost nobody ever wakes up one morning and…
Don’t Wrestle Like a Pig: Knowing When to Stand Your Ground and When to Walk
Some people are totally obsessed with having the last word. From the comment sections of social media to…
Axiom Auditing: A Step-by-Step Guide to Identifying Your Core Beliefs
In geometry, an axiom is a starting point, a statement so evident that it requires no proof. Everything…