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18. The Halo Effect | Phil Rosenzweig | PodNu Podcasts & Book Insights

When you first start a business, you see all these books and articles that appear each year following a formula that usually leads you to...

Human society is at a critical juncture in the second machine age, and the Earth and its peoples are bearing the impact of this period of...

It’s the year 1595, and an old woman, all wrinkled and weary, has found herself in the custody of angry townsmen, armed with pitchforks...

Maybe you’ve realised, maybe you haven’t, but across our daily life, more than half of our behaviors are dictated by habits. If you open...

What would you do if you were stranded on Mars? For those of us who aren’t astronauts, it’s rather difficult to conceptualize this. After...

Have you ever been infatuated with someone? Were you obsessed with another person, where they occupy your thoughts every minute of every...

“5...4...3...2...1… Blast off!”, this in effect is the beginning of the book Solaris. We are catapulted in a rocket away from the comfy...

If I were to ask you, “What time is it?”, surely you could answer. Children are taught how to read the hands on a clock at an early age,...

It's been such a long time since I read a fairy tale or something similar. But today I turned to a book that I read a long time ago, and...

An IQ is for life, right? “Our intelligence score is fixed, we are stuck with it as we are stuck with our genes. Some are genetically...

Do all great musicians die young, and was Mozart the first of the mould for the modern superstar? What do Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Jim...

Most people have not seriously thought about how to achieve power in life. Most people may say: “I have no desire for power, I just want...

Strictness or Permissiveness. Order without freedom or Freedom without order. No choice, or unlimited choice. It sounds like extremes for...

Why do people read novels? What are the big draws for settling down and poring over pages of textual fantasy? Have a think for a...

Curiosity - everyone should have it, and most people do, especially when we are young and curious about so many things. At that special...

“I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to...

We communicate with different people every day, be it with relatives, friends, colleagues, or strangers. From the perspective of practice...