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Grit versus intelligence: what actually carries a person toward success

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American intelligence designed Tor to hide spies in a crowd, which meant the crowd had to be real — ordinary people, dissidents, journalists, all anonymous together — and that detail is the one almost no one remembers

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The psychology of persuasion: why the most effective influence rarely feels like a trick

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Mixed feelings are not confusion, they are the only accurate response to a life that contains more than one true thing at once

4 min read

Nato Lagidze

What the Tao Te Ching keeps saying about softness, restraint, and letting go

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Ideapod Editorial Team

Grit versus intelligence: what actually carries a person toward success

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Nato Lagidze

American intelligence designed Tor to hide spies in a crowd, which meant the crowd had to be real — ordinary people, dissidents, journalists, all anonymous together — and that detail is the one almost no one remembers

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The psychology of persuasion: why the most effective influence rarely feels like a trick

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The quiet forms of intelligence that rarely announce themselves

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How to stop living in your head, and why willpower alone rarely gets you out

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Personality tests have limited ability to predict actual behavior, and the research has said so for decades, which has done nothing to reduce their popularity

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Meaning in life rarely arrives as a single revelation: the four pillars that hold it up

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Genuinely content people share less about their contentment than you’d expect — and that reveals something

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The idea that the mind reaches beyond the brain: a serious look at a strange theory

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