The Power of Loss Aversion: How Fear of Loss Shapes Investment Decisions

In investing, emotions often play a bigger role than we’d like to admit. One of the most powerful emotional forces influencing investors is ...

How to Live a Meaningful Life Without Money Worries

We can’t deny the fact that we need money. We need money to pay our bills. We also need it to advance in our lives (e.g. for educati...

The Ethics of Independent Thought and Conflicting Ideas - Understanding Liberal Rationalist Freethinker Identities.

The labels "rationalist," "freethinker," and "liberal" often carry significant weight, signifying a particular...

6 Signs Your Subconscious Negativity Is Sabotaging Your Well-Being (and How to Stop It)

By the control of the subconscious mind, you get control over the conscious.  ~ Swami Vivekananda Many years ago, Dr. Maxell Maltz, ...

Some Unexplainable Mysteries of Life

Life is full of unexplainable mysteries that can make you dizzy just thinking about them. Lovers of intense intellectual stimulation had bet...

Twelve Virtues of Rationality by Eliezer Yudkowsky

The first virtue is curiosity. A burning itch to know is higher than a solemn vow to pursue truth . To feel the burning itch of cur...

3 Mind Tricks Impeding Your Improvement

What wonderful brains we have. It’s incredible how they construct for us a whole world of experience and perception. But brains are ...