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Research suggests the 1960s and 70s produced adults who could self-soothe, entertain themselves, and tolerate boredom – not because their parents were wise but because their ...

Here’s something that doesn’t get talked about enough: the ability to tolerate boredom is a skill, and like most skills, it develops through practice.
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Research suggests that high intelligence doesn’t protect against bad decisions – it makes people better at constructing convincing justifications for the bad decisions t…

Here's a finding that stopped me cold: a 2012 study out of Yale found that people with the highest science literacy weren't ...
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Japan is deploying robots not to replace workers but because there’s no one left to hire

While Western discourse around AI remains fixated on job displacement, Japan is deploying physical AI to solve a ...
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The architecture was always more important than you

The calm one in a family carries more emotional labor than anyone else, and they carry it in silence — because the moment ...
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Psychology says people who were told they were gifted as children often grow into adults who avoid challenges — because their identity was built on being naturally g…

Discover why the "smart kid" label you wore with pride might be the very thing keeping you stuck in your comfort zone, afraid ...
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Psychology says the most emotionally strong people aren’t the ones who never fall apart – they’re the ones who fall apart privately, reassemble without fanfare, and ne…

While the world celebrates those who never seem to break, the truly resilient are quietly falling apart in their bedrooms, ...
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I’m 66 and I spent forty years being extremely good at my job and last spring I realized I had optimized my entire existence for the approval of people I didn’t ...

After four decades of sacrificing everything to become the go-to electrician for wealthy clients who wouldn't even recognize ...
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Trump’s spiritual advisers see Iran strikes as biblical prophecy — and they have institutional power

The Trump administration convened nearly two dozen evangelical leaders for private counsel in the wake of its strikes on Iran ...
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This isn’t 2022: Why the Iran oil shock hits a US economy with no SPR buffer and no Fed room

The US economy added jobs last year and inflation fell to 2.4% in January, its lowest figure in months, and the White House ...
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Psychology says people who constantly research self-improvement but never start aren’t lazy – they’ve confused the feeling of learning with the feeling of changing

I have a confession. There was a stretch of about six months where I read a self-improvement book almost every week. Books on ...
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Halter’s solar-powered cattle collars are on one million animals — the real asset is the dataset underneath

Founders Fund, the venture capital firm associated with Peter Thiel, has led a $220 million Series E round in Halter, a New ...
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Halter’s smart cattle collars are on 1 million animals — with a billion more to go. Founders Fund just bet $220M on it

New Zealand agritech startup Halter has reportedly closed a $220 million Series E at a $2 billion valuation, with Peter Thiel ...