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Nato Lagidze

Nato began writing for Ideapod in 2021 and now serves as its Editor-in-Chief, guiding the publication’s editorial direction around independent thinking, self-awareness, and ways people make sense of their lives. With an academic background in psychology, she investigates emotional bonds people form with places. She dreams of creating an uplifting documentary one day, inspired by her experiences with strangers.

Twenty thousand siblings across three countries later, the “bossy firstborn, easygoing baby of the family” story doesn’t hold up — birth order changes almost nothing measurable about your personality

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People told to punch a bag while thinking about who made them angry ended up angrier than people told to do nothing at all — sitting still beat “healthy venting” outright, in the same experiment, on the same scale

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The generation everyone calls the most narcissistic in history is, according to 546,225 people tested across four decades, measurably the least narcissistic in 40 years — and the decline got steeper after the 2008 financial crisis, not slower

  • 4 min read

Thinking for yourself costs more than people admit, and most of the price is paid in belonging rather than in effort

  • 4 min read

People who read every message and answer none of them usually aren’t avoiding you, they’re rationing something they’ve never been taught to name

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The happiest people after sixty often aren’t the ones who found their purpose, they’re the ones who stopped treating happiness as something you get to by achieving it

  • 4 min read

In a 1998 study, children praised for being smart later chose easier problems and lied about their scores, while children praised for effort chose harder ones and told the truth

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Morning people report being happier than night owls, but the gap may say less about discipline and more about the fact that schools, offices and social life were all built to their clock

  • 4 min read
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