Category: Mind
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Why Playing Small is an Act of Pride
We are taught that giving and receiving is a transaction. One must lose for another to gain. This isn’t true for an infinite resource.
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Why Social Rejection Hurts and Why the Pain Is Lying to You
To belong to these groups, you must adopt a specific set of masks, defend a specific set of opinions, and identify the out-group.
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The Cult of Mandated Passion: Why Lack of Enthusiasm at Work Is the Clearest Form of Self-Awareness
So, you are not only doing physical and mental labor. You are also commanded to do emotional labor.
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Why Your Possessions Own You: The Psychology of Ownership and Identity Fusion
True freedom is an empty space. We tend to fill this empty space with furniture in the name of improvement. The truth is that these decorations only occupy the space where freedom is offered.
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Political Polarization Is a Projection System
By seeing evil projected on the news and on our social feeds, we get to pretend that evil isn’t all in the mind. We feel a temporary sense of relief because we have a place to dump our unconscious guilt.
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Why Memory Is a Present-Moment Hallucination (Not a Window Into the Past)
The truth is, there is no back then. It’s just the mind pretending to be a time traveler.
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Your Personality Is an Algorithm: What AI Reveals About the Human Mind
The exhaustion we feel from seeing so many fake things is the realization that our perception has been rendered useless.
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Selective Apathy Is Not a Sin: Stop Apologizing for Your Peace.
Because we see what’s going on, the one question that people tend to ask is if I’m caring enough.
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The Arrogance of Action: Why You Aren’t the One Doing the Work
The mind merely observes biological impulses, yet when we react to this impulse, we claim the action as our own. The irony is that we only claim the action after it’s done.
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The Guilt of Saying No: Why Choosing Your Peace is True Love
We’ve come to define love as mutual sacrifice. In this framework, we prove how much we love someone by how much peace we are willing to give up for another. Consequently, we are taught to ignore our inner alignment in favor of external expectations.