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The variable is the rest of the world
A social experiment is a type of research. In fields like psychology and sociology, scientists are seeing how people behave in certain situations and respond to particular policies or programs. They divide individuals into two groups. Active participants, those who take action in an event, and respondents, those who react to the action, often who are unaware they’re part of the experiment. The goal, of course, is to monitor…
I don’t have to know jack squat about astrophysics
A filter is a way of viewing our experience of reality. It’s a tool that frames our observations about the world and ultimately gives us better results than we would have without it. And there are as many filters as there are people to see through them. We can create and deploy as many of them as we want, once we discover how the filter creation process works. Below…
Playing a game of seek and no hide
Let’s talk about the things we hide behind. There are so many ways to avoid being seen, noticed or interacted with in this world. And each tactic is more fascinating and seductive than the next. That’s human nature for you. We’re all expert at using things to protect ourselves from criticism, punishment and vulnerability. We have been conditioned to quell many of our top fears, like the fear of…
Is that you asking, or your fear asking?
Do you know someone who needs to check in over and over again to make sure everything is okay? Someone whose repetitive need for reassurance drives all of your interactions? It’s totally exasperating when you’re on the receiving end of it. Particularly when someone’s level of distress is high. People’s reassurance compulsion often goes up when their life is coming apart at the seams, so they work overtime to…
Defeated by the sheer power of your need
Broken hearts come from emotionally over investing. We decide that someone or something is the one. This is going to complete us and make us whole and change everything, so we place a dangerously high level of importance on it in our lives. This over investment gives that person or thing complete power over our emotions. But the joke’s on us. Because we are the ones who break our…