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E. Carrigan @ECarriganThinks

Love one another first | Seek truth | Beyond this point there be nuance

Joined February 2021
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Great article. Qs: why do we exclude the automatic brain from the self? Are our experiences and environments not inherently part of who we “are?” Thought: at times, our aware mind can and does overrule our automatic brain - certainly this is another component of “free will.”
Lisa Feldman Barrett@LFeldmanBarrett
13 Dec 2021
What is free will, if our brains launch our actions before we're aware of them? A different look at the question in @BBC @ScienceFocus. sciencefocus.com/the-human-b…
Interpretations of Baby It’s Cold Outside: Flirty winter date Or She’s trying to leave, he’s coercing her into staying Or She wants to stay, but has the burden of expectations about her behavior from her “maiden aunt,” mother, and father What do you think? #ChristmasSongs
We don’t talk about it this way (yet), but could narcissism be yet another spectrum disorder? Further, will all mental illnesses eventually be considered on spectrums? #mentalhealth #narcissisticabuse #mentalillness
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We must afford others the grace to make mistakes, grow, change, and do better than they have before. We too will make mistakes and need the space to grow; we then will hope for the same grace in return. #amwriting #personalgrowth
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Laziness is not a trait. Laziness is a choice: the choice not to do the things you don’t really feel like doing. The more you choose to be lazy, the lazier you will be. The more you choose to do, the more you will do. #thoughtoftheday #amwriting #inspiration #doit
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Adam Grant
@AdamMGrant
8 Nov 2021
The test of integrity isn't how often you shift your stance. It’s why you change your mind. Revising your words to gain approval is flip-flopping. Rethinking your views based on new facts is learning. Integrity isn't fidelity to your beliefs. It's fidelity to seeking the truth.
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Dorian Schuyler Abbot@DorianAbbot
6 Nov 2021
MIT polled it's faculty: -83% say their and their colleagues' voices are increasingly in jeopardy - 60% feel their and their colleagues' voices are constrained on an everyday basis at MIT mitfreespeech.org/

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It’s so much easier to just believe the loudest majority. I wish I could do that. Then I wouldn’t have to be worried about things like evidence, logic, or truth. Being loud and popular has zero relationship with being correct or true, unfortunately. #amwriting #truth
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When you see things as burdens instead of gifts or opportunities, they will be burdens. When you forget to be grateful and savor precious moments, they will be lost. Life is a beautiful gift or it is a heavy burden, and it’s your choice. #amwriting #perspective #Wellbeing
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You don’t have to be super “smart” to be generally competent. And many people who are “super smart” are actually not generally competent. Do you agree? #QOTD #amwriting #questiontime #smarts #competence
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Steve Magness
@stevemagness
26 Oct 2021
People mistake leadership with power and control. When it's really about the opposite, autonomy. If you are leading, your goal is to actually give away control. You want to guide and empower your team to not be dependent on you.
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It’s sad that #wellness dialogues are now simultaneously telling people that their problems are almost all the fault of the prior generation, and yet that they are doing everything right as parents themselves, and that there is absolutely no right way to parent. #mentalhealth
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Lawrence M. Krauss
@LKrauss1
20 Oct 2021
My new WSJ piece, detailing how the unchecked DEI regime at universities is enforcing groupthink, excluding talent in favor of adherents, punishing dissent, and infringing on the diversity that should be at the heart of academia: diversity of thought. wsj.com/articles/diversity-t…

Opinion | How ‘Diversity’ Turned Tyrannical

What began as an effort to hire more minorities has turned into a demand for ideological engagement.

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We can and should admire imperfect people who made mistakes on their road to greatness. Admiring only what we currently see as perfect means we lose all of those admirable qualities that come with nuance and darkness. We must accept both the light and the dark. #amwriting
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It’s amazing what people without imaginations think solutions look like. “Ignore your most basic human instinct! Condemn yourself to a meaningless existence for the supposed sake of others’ futures!” We will solve this problem as we have others: with new ideas, not old ones.
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@G_S_Bhogal
20 Oct 2021
When you tell people to stop procreating to save the environment, the conscientious people raise fewer kids, while the indifferent ones raise just as many as they always have, leading to a future dominated by the indifferent.
Lifetime academics are largely doomsayers because they don’t actually know how to DO anything effectively, just how to THINK about things. 1/ #phdchat #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter
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2/ This lifetime of thoughtful inaction makes academics feel like they have lots of problems and no solutions, when in fact there’s a whole world out there solving problems (that nasty “other” they call “industry”)! / #Industry #phdchat #UnpopularOpinion #capitalism #business
“A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.” - #RipColinPowell
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“Don’t be buffaloed by experts and elites. Experts often possess more data than judgement. Elites can become so inbred that they produce hemophiliacs who bleed to death as soon as they are nicked by the real world.” - #RipColinPowell
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