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How to understand people who seem crazy | The Righteous Mind 1
A review of Jonathan Haidt's The Righteous Mind, updated with research through 2024, starting with why moral judgment is a feeling before it is an argument.
The motivational interviewing style that gets people to open up
Motivational interviewing has a formula for the two hard parts of a conversation: open questions that pull an honest answer, and complex reflection that shows the person you understood them.
I got picked as a Millie's Library Book Master
What Millie's Library asks of a Book Master, what the weekly job involves, and the perks that come with the badge.
The Blackpink way of talking that gets you close to anyone
Questions that trade feelings and vulnerability, plus responses that empathize and support, are what turn a stranger into a friend. A Blackpink lyric happens to say the same thing.
How to win someone over when you talk
Thirty questions turned strangers into friends in an hour. The book Supercommunicators explains why, and this first part is about hearing what the other person actually wants from a conversation.
Write the rules before your resolve wavers
A three step method for building decision rules that hold when your own judgment wobbles: settle the plan before you act, state its intent, and name the assumptions that would break it.
The psychology behind why cutting your stock losses is hard
A behavioral economics paper on why we set a rule and then break it. We judge by one standard when we plan and a different one when we act.
Speed reading that actually works, checked against the research
Three standard speed reading tricks that the research kills, three that survive it, and how to build the reading muscle underneath them.
The reading method that never fails
The four-step method in full: record, summarize, connect, repeat, and why counting the books you finished is the wrong scoreboard.
What if you read ten times faster?
Anne Jones read the last Harry Potter in 47 minutes, but the speed worth training is how fast you can put a book to use.