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In most situations, we can either dream about a beautiful and deeply fulfilling future, or we can focus on the present and intentionally design the situation we are in right now. More often than not, it is a dysfunctional belief to aim exclusively for some distant ideal. Instead, it tends to be far more effective…

“It’s dark because you’re trying too hard. Lightly, child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.” — Aldous Huxley

By spending just three to five hours deeply reading a single book each week, you can read roughly fifty books per year.

The next book review will be about Designing Your Work Life by Burnett and Evans.

“willpower and intelligence are two of the strongest predictors of coalitional value according to Coalitional Value Theory (CVT), but they are not the only ones. According to the theory: Coalitional value = how much a person marginally improves the success and fitness of a group. High coalitional value leads to prestige (freely given deference), status,…

Coalitional Value Theory: an Evolutionary Approach to Understanding CulturePublished: 08 May 2020Bo Winegard, Amanda Kirsch, Andrew Vonasch, Ben Winegard & David C. Geary  Abstract In the following article, we forward the coalitional value theory (CVT) and apply it to several puzzles about human behavior. The CVT contends that humans evolved unique mental mechanisms for assessing each other’s marginal value to a…

I am taking a deep dive into Darwin, Sex, and Status by Jerome Barkow.

“Presumably, however, we tend to choose partners whose attributes would, back in our hunting-and-gathering evolutionary environment, have enhanced our inclusive fitness.” Jerome Barkow

Beauty fades. Personality remains.