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by thelettere 5y ago
I agree about healthline but this is an established finding in psychology. Not sure how you're searching, but this is a review that mentions it: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/09637214114294
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by thelettere 5y ago
> Will people who were genetically predisposed towards being thin, hard working, open minded to approaching members of opposite sex and forming deep attachments resulting in children become more frequent? These are not the people right n
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by thelettere 5y ago
It is the very definition of paternalistic to tell someone who wants something other than x, x, and "for their own good". And I am neither anti-therapy nor pro-therapy (only a simpleton would have an unnuanced position on such a c
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by thelettere 5y ago
Not sure why this is downvoted. It is well documented that the most demanding activities lead to the strongest and most enduring relationships. War is the most extreme obvious example, but at college students who participate in demanding sp
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by thelettere 5y ago
Except in this instance OP specifically mentioned therapy as advice he was not looking for. So it's odd and paternalistic if not downright rude that the #1 comment advises just that.
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by thelettere 5y ago
I would suggest that there's an inherent trade-off at work here. It was more exciting largely because of the time and work involved.
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by thelettere 5y ago
You're right but at the same time all the evidence points towards the benefit of one's own disposition being biased towards responsibility and choice. External locus of control and learned helplessness are not fun states of mind,
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by thelettere 5y ago
Apologies - I edited it apparently just before you replied, and I wasn't familiar with how to mark edits.
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by thelettere 5y ago
Swift decline ≠ immediate decline. Paper Moon came out 2 years after Picture Show, after which most of what he made was unwatchable by near unanimous consent. If that's not a swift decline I don't know what is.
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by thelettere 5y ago
I would hope it is obvious I am not talking about the period prior to the modern age in which the only people who could read were rich. Because that says nothing about mindset, which is the claim I was replying to. To test his mindset theor
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by thelettere 5y ago
The person who I responded to said "the mindset that lets you do this is a mindset that comes from a background of abundance" - implying that pours have a mindset which doesn't "let them" take risks. And it goes wit
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by thelettere 5y ago
Where did I say science? Many modern scientific disciplines are by their nature exclusionary because they require access to specialized equipment and space, so of course that's somewhat of an exception to my generality. And I say somew
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by thelettere 5y ago
Anyone who's interested in more indepth information on him and on why his career and creative powers fell apart so swiftly after "Picture Show" would be served by reading "Hollywood: A Third Memoir" by Larry McMurtr
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by thelettere 5y ago
The idea that only the rich are able to take risks - or even think about it - is a bias, and an ugly one at that. It doesn't match history - the only reason we have many good things is because poor people took major risks - and it&#x27
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by thelettere 5y ago
The "short and harsh" cliche is a gross generalization. High rates of infant mortality and childhood death skew the lifespan data such that for these that survive childhood the average lifespan is not so starkly different than our
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by thelettere 5y ago
Mentioned here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7935078/
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by thelettere 5y ago
How will you know which one you are - or which one you could become - if you don't try it? Although the very idea of "trying it" like one tries on a pair of pants is absurd. Either a people has the moral fortitude to recogniz
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by thelettere 5y ago
This is exactly the kind of snarky, deflationary attitude that the article is essentially writing in reaction to. The lack of faith that a "little blog" about good governance in an age entirely absent it could actually lead to som
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by thelettere 5y ago
The notion that one has to take care of one's "needs" before pursuing anything "higher" is a lie and an excuse. The number of great intellectuals and writers who lived at least a portion of their lives - and often m
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by thelettere 5y ago
"The problem of educating the educators is a problem which the democrat forgets in his enthusiasm for educating the pupils." Except now we don't even have the latter. We've just accepted that the least qualified individu
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by thelettere 5y ago
Google scholar is the easiest source, but I can help by sharing a few (there is no single paper I know of that sums everything up). It's a difficult topic because so few solid studies have been done - but everything we know suggests th
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by thelettere 5y ago
The difference between liking/enjoying and gaining benefit I think is crucial here. It's akin to the difference between pleasure and happiness. No doubt the vast majority of people (if not everyone) on social media gains some plea
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by thelettere 5y ago
The data is pretty clear that the only time social media is beneficial is if it leads to the formation/maintenance of long term relationships. Without that it's just entertainment, and entertainment that is not "happy" m
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Look at Your Fish (2016)(thecresset.org)
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by thelettere 5y ago
I've found it virtually impossible to find a sub organized around an intellectual topic or person that isn't virtually unreadable for anyone who knows anything about the topic. The more specific and concrete (and smaller, above a
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by thelettere 5y ago
Social media ≠ social connection, for the most part (i.e. the proportion of time spent messaging vs. passively viewing is skewed towards the latter). That's why it's trash - it's a pseudo-relational avoidance of both the grea
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by thelettere 5y ago
"employers stopped being loyal to their employees, so employees stopped being loyal back." On what basis do you make this claim? It was always my understanding that it started with employees - because what changed was not that emp
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by thelettere 5y ago
Maybe you aren't everyone. There are already a number of colleges and universities that don't use grades, and many have been around for a half century or more and are among the most prestigious liberal arts institutions in the cou
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by thelettere 5y ago
Look at the methodology - borderline laughable. Tells us no more than his anecdote does, for there are a million other potential explanations - including that it isn't calling those hotlines that helps, but knowing that one can, which
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by thelettere 5y ago
This is literally the worst take I've ever read on hn. What's your background in neuropsychology? On what basis besides Elon Musk PR do you have to make this prognostication? It's never going to happen because that's not

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