How do you know if something is real? That’s a complicated question, and there isn’t necessarily one right answer. For some things, like people or animals, we can use our senses to interact with them…
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Filters and facades
It’s easy to get caught up in trying to present the perfect image to the world. But at the end of the day, we all know that nobody’s perfect. So why not embrace our imperfections?…
Making room for new opportunities
Creative destruction is a concept that was first introduced by the Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter in the 1940s. It refers to the process of innovation and change that leads to the replacement of old products…
Irritation vs transformation
When we encounter something that irritates us, we have a choice to make. We can either let the irritation transform us or we can simply react with irritation. If we choose the former, we can…
Connecting ideas
It is often necessary to connect disparate ideas. For example, an engineer might need to connect concepts from physics and mathematics in order to design a new type of bridge. A writer might need to…
Using your intuition
We’ve all been there. That moment when we instinctively know what to do, even though we’ve never done it before. It’s as if we are being guided by some higher power. The brain is capable…