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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.

The psychological term for wanting what you were trained to want is introjected regulation, and research suggests most people spend their lives acting on it without knowing it has a name

  • 3 min read

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

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

  • 4 min read

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

  • 5 min read

People stay in roles, relationships, and identities that no longer fit not because they are afraid to leave but because they have lost the ability to imagine being different

  • 6 min read

The five stages of grief were developed by studying people who were dying, not people who were grieving a loss, which means the model most people reach for in their worst moments was built for a different experience entirely

  • 8 min read

The breakup was your decision and you still find yourself looking, and the reason according to neuroscientist Hannah Critchlow is that your brain reads the silence as uncertainty and uncertainty is the one thing it cannot leave alone

  • 4 min read

Loneliness in old age is not always the silence of being alone — sometimes it is the moment you stop doing the emotional work and find out how little of the friendship was ever mutual

  • 3 min read
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