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Contagious Habits
People love the Proximity Effect because it sounds like a law with clean edges, something you can tape above your desk next to your expensive notebook and the water bottle with the motivational measurements printed on the side, as if personality were a sourdough starter quietly taking on the flavor of whatever kitchen it sits in, as if the whole ugly business of becoming a person could be reduced to “watch your circle” and not to the more embarrassing fact that people are porous in some ways and stubborn as a rusted hinge in others, and often at the exact wrong times.
By KURIOUSK29 minutes ago in Motivation
The Outlier
The smallest victory I ever saw in a university happened on a Thursday. If that sounds like I am making a shrine of it after the fact, that is exactly the sort of dishonest inflation professors are good at when we want our own memories to come out looking wiser than they were.
By KURIOUSKa day ago in Motivation
Why Most Intelligent People Struggle in Life and Careers
I have watched brilliant people ruin themselves with almost scholarly precision. Not all at once. Not in the movie version where the gifted student flames out and everyone whispers about wasted potential. Real decline is slower and more bureaucratic than that. It happens in graduate offices with dead ficus plants, in startup conference rooms that smell faintly of burnt coffee and dry-erase marker, in labs where somebody with a spectacular mind cannot answer a simple email for nine days because the email is not interesting enough.
By KURIOUSK6 days ago in Motivation
