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There's a specific kind of person who can give the most precise, compassionate advice to everyone around them and then make the worst possible decisions for their own life. The clarity isn't selective. It's that they can only see patterns when they're not standing inside them.
15+ hour, 7+ min ago (996+ words) Emily Pronin, a psychologist at Princeton, ran a series of experiments that revealed something uncomfortable: people are good at spotting cognitive biases in others and bad at recognizing the same biases operating in themselves. She called it the bias blind…...
There's a kind of intelligence that never gets measured because it lives entirely in the body. The person who can feel the weather changing in their knees, read a dog's mood from across the street, and know a room is wrong before anyone speaks.
3+ week, 2+ day ago (914+ words) There's a term in neuroscience that deserves a much bigger audience: interoception. It refers to the sense by which we perceive internal bodily signals, everything from heartbeat and breath rate to gut feelings, temperature shifts, and muscular tension. The implication…...