“Questioning our own motives, and our own process, is critical to a skeptical and scientific outlook. We must realize that the default mode of human psychology is to grab onto comforting beliefs for purely emotional reasons, and then justify those beliefs to ourselves with post-hoc rationalizations." - Steven Novella”
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“Where you arrive does not matter as much as what sort of person you are when you arrive there.”
― Letters from a Stoic
― Letters from a Stoic
“Behold the field in which I grow my fucks. Lay thine eyes upon it and see that it is barren. (anonymous twitter joke referenced in the book)”
― An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
― An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
Erik’s 2025 Year in Books
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