Shorter Pieces
The illustrations are from various sources. The drawings were made by Wilfried Bausch, Heidelberg, and originally published in Inner Necessity and Self-Realization – Thinking about How to Live.
More things happen by chance than we think
We usually think that the world is governed by a certain order, whether built into the laws of nature or God-given, and that it is therefore reliable and predictable. But we sometimes mistake randomness for order. Some people, for instance, complained about the i-Pod shuffle because it was...
Medical expertise
It has been plausibly argued by the psychologist, Daniel Kahneman, in his brilliant new book on human cognition, „Thinking, fast and slow“, that true expertise depends on two factors, namely the length of the expert’s personal experience and the speed and quality of the feedback.
Personality traits are less stable than we think
We tend to think of personality traits such as generosity or meanness as stable phenomena, but a number of psychological studies strongly suggest that they are much more dependent on the particular situation we find ourselves in than we usually think.
The psychologist, John Doris, has...