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Exhalation

by Ted Chiang

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Aug 22, 2026 07:34PM

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“My point is, if we are lucky we bounce into someone. But we always bounce away again, at least a little.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Lucy by the Sea

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“We are all in lockdown, all the time. We just don’t know it, that’s all. But we do the best we can. Most of us are just trying to get through.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Lucy by the Sea

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“When we keep trying to find answers to questions that are probably unanswerable, we may start to feel worse and worse.”
― Woo-Kyoung Ahn, Thinking 101: How to Reason Better to Live Better

tags: overthinking, psychology, science

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“Everyone thinks like themselves, this is my point.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Lucy by the Sea

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“Because we project our own knowledge and feelings onto others, we are overconfident and believe we know what they think. As a result, we don’t bother or we forget to verify whether our assumptions are correct. Gathering facts is the only sure way we have to understand each other.”
― Woo-Kyoung Ahn, Thinking 101: How to Reason Better to Live Better

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