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Human beings are wired to remember and internalize negative experiences with vastly greater force than positive ones…
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…it’s human nature to want to put as positive a spin as possible on who we are, at least in terms of how we present ourselves to the outside world.
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…it is human nature to revert to established habits in times of stress.
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Remember, it’s much easier to go with human nature than it is to fight it, so removing temptation is the best solution.
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…humans invent games and diversion… for the exact same reason the infant takes delight in his ability to move a pencil.
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Humans are social beings that begin to atrophy – even to physically decay – if they are denied regular contact with other humans…
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How have so many humans reached the point where they accept that even miserable, unnecessary work is actually morally superior to no work at all?
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…human beings essential are a set of purposes, so that without any sense of purpose, we would barely be said to exist at all.
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…the belief that what ultimately motivates human beings has always been… the pursuit of wealth, power, comforts and pleasure, has always and must always be complemented by a doctrine of work as self-sacrifice, as valuable precisely because it is the place of misery, sadism, emptiness, and despair.
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Analogical thinking takes the new and makes it familiar, or takes the familiar and puts it in a new light, and allows humans to reason through problems they have never seen in unfamiliar contexts.
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