#David McRaney

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If someone you know gets sick from taking a flu shot, you will be less likely to get one even if it is statistically safe. In fact, if you see a story on the news about someone dying from the flu shot, that one isolated case could be enough to keep you away from the vaccine forever. On the other hand, if you hear a news story about how eating sausage leads to anal cancer, you will be skeptical, because it has never happened to anyone you know, and sausage, after all, is delicious. The tendency to react more rapidly and to a greater degree when considering information you are familiar with is called the availability heuristic.

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Review: "How Minds Change" by David McRaney -

McRaney's personal and scientific approach to revealing the nature of our contemporary polarized discourse and keys to healing it is both thought-provoking and practical; a great non-intuitive strategy for all of us!

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Riporto e poi traduco in italiano, con l'aiuto di Google, un passo del capitolo sul Self-Enhancement Bias tratto da You Are Now Less Dumb di David McRaney

Cross-cultural studies by psychologists Hazel Markus and Shinobu Kitayama in the 1990s showed that many Asian cultures actively suppress the urge to self-enhance. As they put it, the Western concept of "the squeaky wheel gets the grease" is seen in Eastern cultures as "the nail that stands out gets pounded down." American self-help techniques, they point out, ask people to do things such as look in the mirror and say, "I am beautiful," one hundred times before leaving the house, while in Japan, workers gladly do things such as hold hands and tell coworkers that they are beautiful. Markus and Kitayama point out that in such a culture, people tend to become more confident to the well-being of the whole. A person in such a culture, they say, doesn't feel the gut punch of disappointment if their personal accomplishments never set them apart or don't generate individual praise or fame. Disapproval in the eyes of others is given much more weight than praise, because praise is less reliable, less likely to be honest. As Markus and Kitayama put it, "Those with interdependent selves will tipically not claim they are better than others" and will feel icky if a sense of superiority does waft into their heads. You've probably noticed shades of Eastern attitudes in Western cultures. Subcultures and political camps will often laud the sort of sensibility that leads to drum circles and communal ownership and that coincides with a sense of diminished self-enhancement and more focus on interdependence. People in those subcultures may even adopt some of the philosophical and religious views of Asian societies. Likewise, opposing camps offer an alternative view, admiring individuality and personal liberty to a degree that stimulates feelings of self-enhancement in a far more magnified way. Source: Markus, Hazel R., and Shinobu Kitayama. "Culture and the Self: Implications for Cognition, Emotion, and Motivation." Psychological Review 98, no. 2 (1991): 224-53.

Studi interculturali da parte degli psicologi Hazel Markus e Shinobu Kitayama negli anni '90 hanno evidenziato che molte culture asiatiche sopprimono attivamente il bisogno di autovalorizzarsi. Come i due descrivono, il concetto occidentale "la ruota cigolante va lubrificata" è visto nelle culture orientali come "il chiodo che sporge viene martellato".

Le tecniche di auto-aiuto americane, riferiscono, invitano le persone a fare cose come guardarsi allo specchio e dire, "io sono bella", un centinaio di volte prima di uscire di casa, mentre in Giappone i lavoratori fanno volentieri cose come tenersi per mano e dire ai colleghi che sono belli.

Markus e Kitayama riportano che, in una cultura del genere, le persone tendono a riporre più fiducia nel benessere collettivo. In una cultura di questo tipo, spiegano, una persona non avverte un pugno allo stomaco per la delusione se i propri successi non la distinguono mai o non le generano elogi o fama. Viene dato molto più peso alla disapprovazione negli occhi degli altri, rispetto ai complimenti, perché questi sono meno affidabili, è meno probabile che siano sinceri. Come spiegano Markus e Kitayama, "Chi è interdipendente tipicamente non affermerà di essere migliore degli altri" e si sentirà uno schifo se una sensazione di superiorità dovesse passargli per il cervello.

Hai probabilmente notato l'influenza dei valori orientali nelle culture occidentali. Sottoculture e schieramenti politici lodano spesso il tipo di sensibilità che conduce a un cerchio di tamburi e a proprietà comunitarie, e che coincide con una certa diminuzione dell'autovalorizzazione e più attenzione all'interdipendenza. Le persone incluse in queste sottoculture possono perfino adottare alcuni dei punti di vista filosofici e religiosi tipici delle società asiatiche. Allo stesso modo, gli schieramenti opposti offrono un punto di vista alternativo, che ammira l'individualismo e la libertà personale a un livello che stimola sentimenti di autovalorizzazione in un modo molto più preponderante.

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[book review] You Can Beat Your Brain by David McRaney

4⭐️/5

Brain is the one of the organ that is really mystery until today. One of the famous story that I heard before is that someone can speak in another language that they have no idea after suffered from brain damage. But this book talked about the impact of brain toward our thinking.

Basically, what brain want us to do vs what we actually do and thinking this is happened because our brain told us to do. Like we thought it is about A, but actually it is not. It is B.

Well, this is all about experiments that been performed to humans and the conclusion. Since all of these are talking about the myth and truth of the brain, I do take it with the grain of salt. But I do find it fascinating.  

Disclaimer: All the opinion about this book is based on my personal view!

#book review #You Can Beat Your Brain #David McRaney #non-fiction #4/5 #miliyaread

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'Deadwood' – TV's greatest western at 20 on Max

David Milch reinvents the TV western in Deadwood (2004-2006), brilliant, unpredictable, utterly original take on the frontier drama. Walter Hill won an Emmy and a DGA award for his superior direction of the pilot episode, which indelibly establishes the muddy, grubby, dusty frontier atmosphere of the undeveloped west pushed to the extreme in the town of Deadwood, a lawless gold rush town…

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WHEN SAM’S FRIEND IS HUNTED DOWN BY ENEMIES FROM HIS PAST, THE NCIS TEAM MUST FIND OUT WHO’S AFTER HIM, ON “NCIS: LOS ANGELES,” SUNDAY, JAN. 15

“Best Seller” – When Sam’s friend Tom Olsen finds himself being hunted down by enemies from his past, the NCIS team must find out who is after him, on the CBS Original series NCIS: LOS ANGELES, Sunday, Jan. 15 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network, and available to stream live and on demand on Paramount+*.

REGULAR CAST:

Chris O’Donnell

(Special Agent G. Callen)

LL COOL J

(Special Agent Sam Hanna)

Linda Hunt

(Operations Manager Henrietta “Hetty” Lange)

Daniela Ruah

(Special Agent Kensi Blye)

Eric Christian Olsen

(NCIS Investigator Marty Deeks)

Medalion Rahimi

(Special Agent Fatima Namazi)

Caleb Castille

(Special Agent Devin Rountree)

Gerald McRaney

(Retired Admiral Hollace Kilbride)

GUEST CAST:

Erik Palladino

(Special Deputy U.S. Marshal Vostanik Sabatino)

Bill Goldberg

(DOJ Agent Lance Hamilton)

David Paul Olsen

(Tom Olsen)

Lesley Boone

(Nina Barnes)

Natalia Del Riego

(Rosa Reyes)

Gianni DeCenzo

(Luke Austin)

Eddie Kaulukukui

Daya Vaidya

Katrina Begin

Duncan Campbell

(Army Col. Tuivasa)

(Marina)

(Lauren Olsen)

(NCIS Special Agent Castor)

WRITTEN BY: Kyle Harimoto

DIRECTED BY: James Hanlon

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NCIS: Los Angeles Season 13 Rewatch:  “Live Free or Die Standing”

The basics:  When a whistleblower is chased by the drug cartels and a DEA Agent is killed, the team and Talia Del Campo start the search.

Written by:  Eric Christian Olsen co-wrote "Mother" in season 11.

Directed by: Daniela Ruah directed "Russia, Russia, Russia", "Lost Soldier Down" and "Pandora's Box".

Guest stars of note: Mercedes Mason returns as DEA Agent Talia Del Campo, last seen in "The Guardian", part one of the three-part season 10 finale/season 11 premiere.  And since we're talking about the three-parter, who killed Ellie Simms?  Duncan Campbell as NCIS Special Agent Castor, back from “Hard for the Money”.  Brian Leigh Smith was Bomb Tech Aaron Roberts, a role he played in “Mother” but he also appeared as a police officer in "Overwatch" and was a wingman in "The Bear" season 12 premiere.  Rick Pasqualone as Martin Henderson, Goya Robles as Miguel Flores, Dan Gauthier as Carlyle Huntington, Larry Herron as DEA Agent David Ramirez, Carolina Gutierrez as Emma Ruiz, Alicia Urizar as Isabella Cruz, Pam Trotter as Loretta Dawson/Desk Clerk and Sheila Wills as Thelma.

Our heroes:  Try to save a marked man.

What important things did we learn about:

Callen:   Not here. Sam:   Teamed with both Fatima and Rountree during different parts of the episode. Kensi:  Teases Deeks about a mancave. Deeks:  Looking to spend their money on a welcome to the family package for Rosa or Pilar. Fatima:   Tackling gun runners. Rountree:  Never saw “Top Gun” but knows Goose dies. Kilbride:  Filled with righteous indignation.

What not so important things did we learn about:

Callen: Absent.   Sam:  15-minutes early or you’re late. Kensi:  Likes the mindful breakfast. Deeks: Jacks down a breakfast man-shake like a Neanderthal. Fatima:   Etsy fan. Rountree: Man-shake fan, too. Kilbride:  Voted red since Coolidge and has lots of guns.

Where in the world is Henrietta Lange?  Who knows but she should check in soon – Eric Beale is mailing out checks.

Who's down with OTP:  Kensi and Deeks were great if a little forced.  

Who's down with BrOTP:  Not Talia and Rountree.  Those scenes were not great.

Fashion review:   Sam is wearing a long-sleeve black tee-shirt has he has for a lot of episodes this season.  Kensi is wearing her white sweater with the thin blue stripes.  For Deeks, a royal blue henley.  Fatima has a multi-color quarter zip zipped all the way up under a dark blue jacket.  A long-sleeve green tee for Rountree.  The Admiral is in a dark blue suit, white dress-shirt and an aquamarine tie.

Music: No.

Any notable cut scene:   One.  In the retirement home, Rountree and Talia are going to speak to a Wayne Brown.  Brown bought several weapons.  Banging on his door and not getting a response, Rountree wonders if Brown is at the gun range.  Talia shoots back debating if he’s “tossing his hot dog down the hallway.”  Rountree thinks Talia is an HR nightmare.  As a diligent federal agent, Talia thinks they should be checking to see if Brown is “shampooing the Wookie.”  Brown’s nurse brings the sleeping man to his apartment in a wheelchair.  He’s sound asleep.  Calling Rountree “Rounbush”, Talia thinks Brown can only butter his own buns.

Quote:  Anything from an angry Admiral in this episode.  From interrogation with Huntington, to yelling at the team to save Henderson to cursing at the gods for the system’s decision to bury Henderson’s video – this was a great episode for the Admiral and Gerald McRaney.

Anything else:  A shootout is happening in the dark.  Two men are running upstairs.  One says “Please God help us.”  They make their way to the roof of the building.  With just a chair to barricade the door, one man, armed and who looks like law enforcement says he’ll watch the door.  The other man goes down the fire escape to get away from the shooters.  Before he starts down, the man at the door says “Don’t trust anybody.  They’ve got people everywhere.”

With the fellow climbing down the fire escape, the man at the door tries to reposition himself.  He’s been shot.  Gun drawn, he waits for what’s on the other side of the door.

As the other man gets to the street, he pulls out his cellphone and tries to get it to work.  Before he can, the headless body of the man barricading the door lands at his feet.  The people in the street start screaming and running.  The survivor is covered with blood spatter.

At 7:58AM, Kensi and Deeks arrive at the office.  They are greeted by Sam’s “It’s about time.”  Deeks points out they are actually two minutes early to work.  That makes them 13-minutes late is Sam’s world.  Deeks likes being early too but Kensi has the “clock management skills of a tree sloth.”  Kensi likes a mindful breakfast while Deeks inhales a “man-shake” like a Neanderthal.  

Looking at an envelope on his desk, Deeks thinks it is a Dear John letter from Eric Beale.  Sam and Kensi both have an envelope as well.  There are instructions on the envelope that nobody should open theirs until everyone is present.  Sam says “we” have been waiting for Kensi and Deeks to arrive.  Deeks asks who is we?  We includes Rountree at his desk, drinking his own man-shake.  Inspector Deeks just learns about the desks by the old wardrobe.

Sam, Kensi, Deeks and Rountree open their envelopes to find a $10,000 check for each of them.  Eric writes that in Silicon Valley, success is confused with happiness.  Eric is sharing some of his success with his friends and hope it makes them happy.  Deeks thinks Eric was inspired by Gibbs (great call-out show).  There is also a $10,000 check to each of the team member’s favorite charities.   Eric’s only stipulation is that the gift has to be spent – no putting it in the bank.  

Rountree finds Eric to be a modern-day Robin Hood.  Only if the Sheriff of Nottingham is riding on a Segway talking Klingon Sam adds.  Deeks would strap on some green tights and be Eric’s Merry Man for $10,000.  The Admiral makes a note of that offer and adds it to the growing list of things he can’t unsee now that he’s with OSP.  They have a case.  Deeks asks if the Admiral got a check.  He did.  And he’s ordering noise-canceling headphones and soundproof glass for his office.  Deeks giggles all the way to Ops.

In Ops, Deeks tells Fatima to check her desk. She already has and has been “doom scrolling” on Etsy until she heard from a very special guest.  Talia Del Campo pops up on the big screen – she’s on a plane and opens with “Welcome Avengers.”  She wishes she was there to give everyone extra gluten muffins and Deeks a long and inappropriate hug.  That gets a “Yes please” from Deeks and laughs from everyone else.  

All was well with Talia until 24-hours ago when the DEA lost contact with one of their agents who was on a protection detail with a cartel whistleblower.  The DEA Agent was the man barricading the door – David Ramirez.  There are some really terrible headless photos on the big screen – don’t do that show.  Sam offers condolences.  Worried about the whistleblower, Talia turns the briefing over the Fatima.

The missing man is Martin Henderson, a 20-year Navy veteran who retired to work in sales and distribution for a firearms manufacturer.  Henderson found that straw buyers were being used to make weapons sales and those weapons were being shipped to the cartels in Mexico.  Mexico has one legal gun shop in the whole country and they sell about 10,000 guns a year.  These straw purchases are moving 250,000 guns illegally into Mexico each year.  

Fatima asks her little “Norwegian Weasel” if he has any guesses why there isn’t a crackdown on this.  He doesn’t have an answer.  Since nobody wants American guns in the hands of Mexican criminals, the Mexican government is trying to crackdown by suing the gun manufacturers the way the parents in Sandy Hook did.  Martin Henderson was supposed to testify about the gun sales.  Talia expects to arrive in 30-minutes.  She has two addresses for the team to check out.  With the clock ticking, Sam knows there will be six different body bags for Henderson if the cartels find him first.

As Deeks drives, he is looking for an update from Fatima.  Henderson has not contacted his family or the DEA.  The addresses Talia sent was the only leads.  One is connected to Carlyle Huntington, Henderson’s boss.  Fatima sends a photo that Kensi considers a “hard swipe right”.  Huntington has a clean record and a lot of money with homes in LA, Manhattan, ranch house in New Mexico and a penthouse in Mexico City.  Kaleidoscope caught him entering a restaurant called La Bocca Felice, which impresses Deeks.  Sam and Rountree are on their way.

Feeling he lost a bet, Deeks asks why are they going to Lancaster.  There is an address that is the last thing Henderson sent out before disappearing.  The address is a large ranch house being remodeled.  Sam is worried – nobody knows what is in Lancaster so he wants Kensi and Deeks to be careful.  

During the drive to Lancaster, Deeks asks Kensi if she has any idea what they should do with their $20,000.  Kensi thinks put it back in the house.  Make the garage a staycation paradise, maybe get a pool table.  Deeks is intrigued.  Get a flat screen TV, a minifridge and a golden shark.  Deeks laughs and calls her cruel and heartless.  Kensi laughs at how the joy in his eyes all melted away.  Deeks is offended she’d use his golden shark to trick him.  He’d also like to know what are they going to do with the money – “for real.”  

Since they’ve been busy and it only just happened, Kensi doesn’t really have plans.  Deeks does.  He’s thinking satellite phone, iPad, monogramed towels.  Kensi says they have all those things.  They do but maybe for Pilar or Rosa.  Deeks has been reading and part of adopting a teen from another country after making them feel safe and loved is giving them the opportunity to stay in contact with their extended family.  Kensi loves Deeks and thinks it is so thoughtful.  But since she brought up the golden shark, why not a pinball machine?

Blowing right past the parking valet, Sam and Rountree walk into La Bocca Felice.  Huntington is having a meal with a female friend.  As Sam and Rountree go to Huntington, two bodyguards try to stop them.  They are not good bodyguards – they are in handcuffs in short order.  

Walking up to the table, Sam notices Huntington is drinking an expresso martini at 10AM.  “Well, I don’t do coke anymore.”   He also denies that the bodyguards were with him – he’s never seen them before.  With his date leaving early, Huntington is willing to talk to Sam and see “how poorly our tax dollars are spent.”  

On the phone, the Admiral is exasperated.  Nobody got Henderson’s testimony in writing.  Anything would be better than nothing and the way things are going, they have nothing.  

Kensi and Deeks pull up to a house under construction in his truck.  Deeks has been watching the show.  He can’t understand why they say “federal agents” since everyone either runs away or starts shooting.  God bless you Martin A. Deeks.  He thinks they should yell Jonas Brothers and honestly, I’m, not 100% on board for that.  Kensi still says “federal agents” as they kick in the door.  The house is empty but under construction.  

Fatima calls.  There is video of Kensi and Deeks getting out of the truck and going into the house.  NCIS’s threat management team picked it up on the internet.  They’re being watched.  Since they’re in “frickin’ Egypt” there is no time for back-up.  Kensi asks could the footage be from a hacked surveillance camera.  She and Deeks hid near the windows, gun drawn.  Fatima can see them in the house in the video.  They are right outside of the house.  Deeks finds this all a bummer, he didn’t plan on bleeding today.  Kensi thinks the $10,000 shouldn’t go to hospital bills.  Going outside, everyone is gone.  All the construction workers are gone but their trucks and equipment are still there.  They wanted Kensi and Deeks to know they were being watched.  

In interrogation, Sam finds it interesting that Huntington didn’t ask why he was being brought in.  Huntington isn’t interested in acting oblivious.  He knows Henderson is missing.  Sam asks for a reason Henderson would be missing and Huntington snarks about a second family.  He knows about Henderson working the DEA and NCIS dropping by his “brunch with benefits” confirms that.  Huntington finds it odd that Henderson’s ex-wife and daughters haven’t approached him.  He has contacts all over the world and they didn’t ask for help.  They didn’t ask for help because Henderson is working against him.  Selling guns and ammo isn’t for everyone.  Henderson obviously became “allergic” to his great salary and hefty 401K.  

Pushing back, Sam thinks Henderson learned about the straw buyers.  Saying his company is bulletproof (pun intended), Huntington invites NCIS to get a warrant and look thought all of his paperwork, they haven’t broken a single law.  The ATF is in Huntington’s offices right now looking around.  They aren’t going to find anything.  Huntington does tell Sam and Rountree that the two bodyguards at the restaurant really weren’t working for him.  Now, if someone really believes that guns purchased from Huntington’s company are smuggled into Mexico, the cartels have a good reason to keep Huntington safe.  Leaving interrogation, Rountree tells Huntington that he doesn’t like him.  Huntington tells him the night is still young.  

In the main room, the Admiral doesn’t like Huntington either.  Fatima pops up on the plasma, she has over 100 gun purchases coming from a single address with the names of multiple buyers.  Talia has arrived and is looking for “a wingman to be her Goose.”  Rountree asks “who’s Goose” and it is hard to tell who is more offended, Sam or the Admiral.  Sam can’t believe Rountree never saw “Top Gun”.  “Of course he hasn’t, unless it’s in 30-second clips on TikTok or they’ve made it with vampires.”  Rountree gets to work with Talia today while the Admiral tries to work on Huntington.  As he leaves, Sam tells Rountree that Goose dies in “Top Gun”.  Rountree is not pleased.  The Admiral is going after Huntington.

Walking into interrogation, the Admiral is greeted by Huntington with an AARP joke or “Bring Grandpa to work day.”  The Admiral admits he’s 74 (when the episode was filmed, so was Gerald McRaney).  He should be living on a beach in Costa Rica, reading a cheap spy novel and drinking an expensive single malt.  Instead, he’s in LA.  He goes on a long tirade about LA types.  

Moving to the wrong side of the table, the Admiral needs a name of someone who can find Henderson.  Huntington replies “Keyser Soze.”  That gets a chuckle from the Admiral for being clever but look where clever got him.  Huntington thinks clever got him a lunch date with a woman half his age and twice as hot.  

Getting serious, the Admiral explains that if Henderson is caught by the cartels, he’s getting a Columbian necktie and the Admiral goes into great detail on how that happens.  Touching  the Admiral’s suit, Huntington asks if that would be considered business causal.  The 74-year old Admiral takes Huntington’s hand, turns his wrist and has him face down on the edge of the table.  Asking one more time, the Admiral wants a name.  Huntington blurts out “Miguel Flores”.  As the Admiral leaves, Huntington said he didn’t see Kilbride as a “smug, anti-gun snowflake”.  He’s not – he’s voted red since Coolidge and he’s got more guns than Huntington has empty bottles of Viagra.  This is about choosing financial gain over human decency.  

In the main room, Sam is impressed.  The Admiral admits having not made a move like that since BUD/S.  Fatima is back on the plasma.  Miguel Flores is an immigrant who became a US citizen after spending 10-years in the Navy.  Now, Flores crosses the border daily with handipainted tiles.  Fatima can’t find a brick and mortar address for Flores but he has a boat near Sam’s and two expensive vehicles – a Raptor and a Ducati.  

As Sam is about to go to the boat alone, the Admiral reminds him they work in teams.  Fatima is out of Ops and working with Sam.  The Admiral wants blood, answers or both.  He’d really like both.

Clearing the perimeter of the house, Kensi arrives at the home’s garage where there are three additional locks.  Deeks finally gets in by doing a crane kick and they find the expensive Raptor with handmade Mexican tile.  

Screeching to a stop, Talia jumps out of her Honda and apologizes for being late.  She makes several In-n-Out jokes and Rountree isn’t there for it.  Approaching the front desk of this retirement home, Talia introduces herself and Agent Squaretree.  When Rountree corrects her, the two bicker and the desk clerk is not amused.  Fatima wants a list of residents, some have purchased over 100 guns.  The clerk gladly turns it over with a warning that if they are going to talk to anyone, knock hard.  It was water aerobics day and after 10AM, that place becomes frisky.  Rountree could have lived without that image.   As Rountree and Fatima walk up the stairs to find the residents, a younger woman – obviously not a resident – walks down.

Exiting his car, Sam talks about spending the $10,000 as an extension of your happiness.  Sam would take a family vacation, maybe help Kam with a car down payment.  Fatima asks as a millennial, should she stop buying useless items from Etsy.  Depends, Sam tells her.  “Do they spark joy?”  Coming across the Ducati, Sam asks for Miguel Flores, who is working on his boat.  Sam goes “federal agent” and really should have gone Jonas brother.  Flores takes off.  Sam chases while Fatima goes around.  When Flores goes where Fatima stationed herself, she blocks him into the water.  

After examining the truck, Kensi finds it squeaky clean.  Thinking that moving Mexican tile doesn’t pay for expensive trucks and a fancy motorcycle, Deeks uses a broomstick to try to get into a strange spot in the ceiling.  Deeks is a fan of the home repair shows and Zillow porn surfing.  Climbing into the overhead, Deeks is walking around when he finds a dead body when he falls through the ceiling.  

In handcuffs, Flores says he doesn’t live in the house.  He just drives the tiles back and forth.  Fatima promises NCIS can help him but he thinks he’s dead man walking.  His family – mom, dad, two little brothers – all depend on him for money.  If the cartels learn he’s talking to NCIS, the family will be killed.

A woman named Thelma invites Talia and ”Agent Rounleaf” into her apartment.  They think Thelma is a straw buyer but she has guns.  They are old fashion rifles.  Thelma hasn’t bought any of the guns no the list.  When asked about her ID, Thelma tells them there was a robbery in the building so the front office keeps the IDs safe.  The desk clerk collected the IDs.  When Talia and Rountree go back to see the desk clerk, her throat was cut.

In the boat shed, Huntington’s lawyer arrived.  She tells the Admiral that Huntington is returning to New Mexico on a six o’clock private flight so she wants to wrap things up.  

The bomb squad checked out the house.  No bombs.  The bad news is their sub-surface tech found something in the walls of the house.  While Kensi is asking how they can look into the walls, Deeks just busts one up.  There are guns all through the walls.  

In an NCIS-style Zoom call with the faces on the plasma, Talia and Rountree matched the out of state IDs with the purchases of the guns.  The desk clerk was the straw buyer.  Lawyer Deeks says even if they can connected the guns and Loretta to the cartels, that doesn’t give them anything against Huntington’s company.  Sam doesn’t want to get caught in the weeds – Henderson can make all those connections when they find him.   They have to get either Huntington or Flores to flip.  The Admiral will start with Huntington.

With his lawyer in interrogation, Huntington waits.  When the Admiral walks in and tells him he can go but not before calling him a few names.  More than a few.  The lawyer doesn’t thinks they have to listen to the Admiral.  Huntington gets off a few shots at the “Captain”.  Saying that the country was born in genocide and hasn’t had a good war since the Great War.  When Huntington finishes, the Admiral says he was a solider who fought for Huntington’s right to be a jackass.  

Huntington continue to talk about soldiers fighting because big business wants them to.  The Admiral calls Huntington a war profiteer who can sleep at night because of the distanced between him and the bodies his weapons killed.  Huntington replies about drones killing children and calling it diplomacy.   When the Admiral talks about a particular atrocity committed by the cartels, Huntington says that means there are less mouths to feed.  “Does your dead mother in heave know what you’ve become?”  

Standing, Huntington’s lawyer wants them to go.  The Admiral talks about Huntington’s mother, a church secretary and a middle school teacher.  She made people’s lives better and is crying in heaven because “what you are is an abomination.”  Huntington breaks – he could tell every the Admiral every straw buyer, every cartel person who gets a gun but nothing will happen because of the corrupt lawyers and lobbyists and judges.  Pointing to his lawyer, Huntington says he didn’t hire her, the cartels did to keep the system safe.  She pulls out a pen and asks him to get up and go.  When Huntington is about to give up Henderson’s location, the lawyer stabs Huntington in the neck with the pen.  Huntington is dying. While tending to Huntington, the Admiral calls for Castor to arrest the lawyer.  Huntington is foaming at the mouth – there was poison on the pen.

Stopping LAPD before Flores is put into the back of a black and white, Sam begs Flores to help them.  Fatima says NCIS is ready to get his family from Mexico and bring them to the US, granting them asylum.  Flores turns them down.  His family will be dead before the agents get there.  Sam understands that the cartel helped him get to the Navy, get dual citizenship.  With the power to save a man’s life, Flores can strike down the monsters who own him and his family.  Flores asks for his phone.  Sam says the right thing to do and the hardest thing to do are the same thing.  Flores finds out Henderson was found – he’s in a warehouse in Culver City.

Sam and Fatima are five-minutes out from the warehouse.  If he survives with a speeding Talia, Rountree things he’s seven-minutes out.  The Culver City PD is ten-minutes out and the building is on fire.  Sam and Fatima do not have full face respirators to go into the fire – budget cuts.  Fatima found something to buy with her $10,000.  Rountree and Talia have them.  The Admiral orders, “Sam, save this man.”  

As they get to the warehouse, Sam and Fatima are immediately under fire.  The Hellcat and the gunmen get shot up.  Taking some deep breaths, Sam runs into the fire.  In the warehouse is the woman Rountree and Talia passed at the retirement home.  She’s shooting at Sam while everything is on fire.  Sam follows her.  In the middle of the warehouse with flames around him, Sam finds Henderson covered in his own blood.

As the woman who Sam was chasing before finding Henderson is about to flee, she is stopped by Talia.  Talia warns her to drop the gun.  The woman would “rather die standing.”  Talia tells her to shut up and drop the gun.  The woman asks if Talia believes in the devil.  Talia does.  When the woman brings her arm up to shoot Talia, Talia shoots her on the spot.  “Tell him I say hello.”  The woman tries to take Talia out before dying.  She is killed.

Sam runs out of the burning building with a dying Henderson in a fireman’s hold.  Getting into the ambulance, Sam tells the EMTs that Henderson must live.  Rountree sees Henderson was holding onto his phone.  Looking at the phone, he sees that Henderson was recording.  Asked what to do with it, Rountree is told by Fatima to send it to the office and hope it was worth the lives of two good men.

The Admiral is arguing with someone on the phone because while the video can’t be used as testimony it could be used for probative value.  The Admiral gets a text – Henderson died going to the hospital.  Livid, the Admiral says he will bury the video.  Kensi and Deeks arrive and the Admiral is screaming in frustration in his office.  Deeks notes the soundproof glass has not arrived.  The Admiral marches to Ops, telling Kensi and Deeks they weren’t in the office, they saw nothing.  Deeks thinks murders often make that statement.

Kensi is willing to spend her $10,000 to buy a time machine so they can go back.  They can do this case again only smarter, faster, so Henderson survives.  Deeks wouldn’t mind not riding the “corpse coaster” from the ceiling.  Kensi’s phone buzzes, so does Deeks.  A blocked number sends a message to over 200 NCIS staffers.  Putting it up on the bullpen’s plasma, it is Henderson’s video.  The guns were marketed to Mexican cartels using quotes of Mexican heroes on the guns slides.  Everyone knew they were sold to straw buyers.  Henderson said he can’t look another atrocity committed by the cartels and know that he played a role in this – he didn’t want to be a whistleblower but now he is.  

Kensi and Deeks watch from the bullpen.  Rountree watches with Talia in the warehouse parking lot.  Sam is watching in the ambulance with Henderson’s body.  In the video, Henderson talks about being the father of two beautiful girls, spending 20-years with the Navy defending his country and 10-years selling his soul.  He knew what he was doing was wrong.  It ate away at his soul.  “Speak the truth and the dawn will come.”  He says goodbye to his daughters and is shot.  “I love you so much.”  The woman Talia shot kills him, complete with the line about believing in the devil.  

Kensi and Deeks looks up and sees Kilbride at the top of the stairs.  They all know what he did.

What head canon can be formed from here:   This should have been a better episode.  Parts of it – where they weren’t overdoing the comedy, were terrific.  The goofy physical humor with Deeks, the bad behaving Talia to Rountree – who has done nothing to earn her dismissive attitude – was all just a bit too much.   It works so hard against the amazing work in the dramatic scenes.  

Based on the show’s history, wouldn’t Kensi inhale a shake for breakfast while Deeks have a mindful morning meal?  

For those wondering, a gift of $10,000 is not a taxable event and will not trigger an audit.  That number has gone up recently but $10,000 is the commonly thought threshold.  Eric talked to a good tax lawyer.

Episode number:  Episode 299 overall, the 19th episode of season 13.

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2024 To be read list

- Hokusai's Fuji Katsushika Hokusai

- The Beauty of Everyday Things Soetsu Yanagi

- THE DIAMOND TAMARA STURTZ-FILBY

- Understanding Jewellery The 20th Century DAVID BENNETT AND DANIELA MASCETTI

- Jewels & Jewellery CLARE PHILLIPS

- GOHAN EVERYDAY JAPANESE COOKING

- toast the story of a boy's hunger Nigel Slater

- Mysticism: Christian and Buddhist Suzuki

- The Heart of the World A journey to Tibet’s lost paradise Ian Baker

- Meditation for the real world Ann Swanson

- Tea history terroirs varieties

- The Book of tea Okakura Kakuzo

- Slouching towards Bethlehem Joan Didion

- DOSTOEVSKY IN LOVE AN INTIMATE LIFE Alex Christofi

- TCHAIKOVSKY THE MAN AND HIS MUSIC David Brown

- Erik Satie Mary E. Davis

- DEBUSSY A PAINTER IN SOUND Stephen Walsh

- Rachmaninoff the last of the great romantics Michael Scott

- TARKOVSKY Films, Stills, Polaroids & Writings

- ANDREY TARKOVSKY Sculpting in time the great russian filmmaker discusses his art

- SUCCESSION SEASON ONE: THE COMPLETE SCRIPTS

- HOW TO THINK ABOUT GOD An Ancient Guide for Believers and Nonbelievers Marcus Tullius Cicero

- HOW TO FOCUS A Monastic Guide for an Age of Distraction John Cassian

- The Tao of Nature Chuang Tzu

- Bu Shi Do Inazō Nitobe

- Aesthetics Charles Taliaferro

- The Book of Chuang Tzu

- The Book of Master Mo Mo Zhi

- Chinese Thought From Confucius to Cook Ding Roel Sterckx

- Silence in the age of noise Erling Kagge

- Being in time Martin Heidegger

- Selfie, How the West became self-obsessed Will Storr

- You are not so smart David McRaney

- Proust was a neuroscientist Jonah Lehrer

- Cosmological Koans a journey to the heart of physics Anthony Aguirre

- SIMPLY QUANTUM PHYSICS

- 50 Quantum Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know Joanne Baker

- Seven brief lessons on physics Carlo Rovelli

- Relativity Einstein

- The tao of physics Fritjof Capra

- Regarding the Pain of Others Susan Sontag

- Boredom a lively history Peter Toohey

- Who rules the world ? Noam Chomsky

- Identity Francis Fukuyama

- Decadent A very short introduction David Weir

- Why we remain in the dark Josh Cohen

- THE TEMPLARS The Rise and Fall of God's Holy Warriors Dan Jones

- Harem the world behind the veil Lytle Croutier

- Heirs to forgotten kingdoms Gerard Russell

- Everyday Life in Traditional Japan Charles J. Dunn

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Great Thanksgiving Discussions

Thanksgiving conversations can be challenging. This post discusses how to use Megan Phelps-Roper's principles to generate great discussions.

Megan Phelps-Roper was a member of the Westboro Church, a hate group. She is the granddaughter of the late Fred Phelps, the church’s founder. Surprisingly, as reported by David McRaney in How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion (a short video about this great book below), her beliefs changed AFTER she left the church. She didn’t leave because her beliefs…

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The truth of a secret

NCIS special agent Todd has a secret that could but the whole team into danger what happens when the news about the death of her dad triggers her powers to become stronger then she ever thought she could she will need to tell them before the nemesis of her youngest sisters best friend strikes again with a changed up mo she will have to reveal the secret to the rest of the team that doesn't know but how did the team take it.

One day after the news and secretly harnessing the new straight over distance training with her sisters (who became stronger as well )and a phone call she decides to tell the team one by one. Helene goes to sleep peacefully in her Alexandria apartment and Kate follows suit in her dc apartment while back in the sisters hometown Maura and Jane follow their night routine falling into bed side by side as they have done for a long time now back in her Beacon Hill home. The next morning Jane and Maura are faced again with the sculpting change in mo and Helene is enjoying a peaceful morning yoga session with both of her sisters and Jane’s as well. After yoga they all go off to work and Kate with a renewed sense of determination to help rid her sisters best friend of her personal nightmare she walks into work and sits down and goes though the files as the rest of the team filters in and she decides to go downstairs to train a bit more before Abby comes in to work. After finishing the training it hits her who it is with the files maura has sent over along with Claire’s on Lindsay’s personal nemesis she races back upstairs to the team all drowned in their own work and Salone waiting for her

Hey Kate whats up i've been waiting

Sorry Jack i was training and going though Mauras and Claires files and i found something

Then what is it Kate

Um i can't say because, she says gustering to her working team mates behind her and what will they think

Katie it won't matter their your family like the Rizzoli’s are mine they haven't treated you any differently sense they found out like my family you owe this to us we all have faith in you,Maura’s voice whispers though her necklace as Jack smiles and nods at Kate's smile and calls the attention of the bullpen

Gibbs and a majority of the team minus Tony looks at Kate's body language and face and smiles and he breaks the silence and gently says what do you got Katie

The jackpot Gibbs the victims all shows signs of multiple serial killers as you all and dr . Mallard after consulting dr. Washburn in san francisco the calling card of the kiss me not killer but if you all could note the missing hands and slit thorout the calling cards of Dennis Rockmond who recently kidnapped dr Isles the chief medical examiner of the commonwealth of massachusetts my home state and the calling card of the surgeon Charles Hoyt who is known for escaping for one condition and to kidnap bpd detective Jane Rizzoli four times for the last time on his deathbed with the me Dr.Isles so it is by my and Ducky’s personal and professional opinion to call them in because there is an fbi card and dna of agent Gabriel Dean on the body who knows all of these details thanks to captain connors and the warehouse shooting and unrelated but subsequent death of both Paddy Doyle jr. and sr and one of which only has three children with mend ceo and founder Hope Martin her only daughter Cailin Martin is a pre med student at bcu as she had previously believed the triplets to be dead but Paddy sent them to Constance and Autor Isles who are both well off in their own way she smiles at her family's photos and whispers to each of them a solo message to her dad you did what you could to protect us were the only thing you'd protect more firmly than your grasp on the city thanks for the letter dad well each read it when where ready i miss you we know you loved us in your own way and made sure Maura and we are safe you ended the terror and had them all turn themselves in each to life setnatnces to her mom and half sister we all love you we knew Maura would be the one to save you but you've made up for lost time see you both when i'm in town and to her mother and father the ones that raised her we all love you you protected us you got me here Helene to bcu and Maura to her best friend see you at the next istation mother thanks for trying and father thanks for trying to heal that rift between us love you both. She smiles and nods to Ducky”make the call as you already ran this by everyone who needs to know. She smiles with slight trepidation until she feels her surge of power knowing her sisters are safe a few hours later.

4 months earlier after Jane and Maura reconciled after the accident. At work the day after Kate loses balance with McGee and Torres on scene immediately knowing her sister over exerted herself and almost leads to her fainting but Gibbs helped them set her down and whispers in her ear(tell them katie) she nods and grasps the gem out of her necklace that hold the outfit that shows her true life and her real family.

Guys i need to show you something but you need to promise me not to tell Tony i can't risk him knowing this

They nod

She smiles and hugs them then here we go she lets the gem go flowing above her head shining brightly as ever and encases Kate in the light changing her outfit and hair to her half sisters hand made leather jacket her leather skirt with black tights and combat boots with a tight fitted dress with a irish flag pin and the crown from her bio dad as the eldest and her mothers bracelet and the choker of mend that they all have and Maura has the headband and Helene has the crown as does Maura they each have their own specially made crowns

Mcgee looks shocked Kate whats going on

Tim i'm not taking my birthright none of us are there all dead or in jail with life threatening harm

Torres us what do you mean by us and what the hell is your birthright

Kate smirks and leans against the tree conjuring all of her patience

I'm the eldest of three Helene Ruyanon Tenured professor at bcu in our homestate and Maura Isles the chief medical examiner of the commonwealth of massachusetts and i'm an Isles not a Todd i didn't want our name to push me ahead i wanted to work for it as did Helene. Maura the youngest and the youngest student in med school top of her class but I'm actually not an Isles weather me and my sisters are adopted. She waves her hand and her normal curls form and her hair slightly lightens while keeping its natural shade. She smirks at the confused looks on their faces and glances over to Gibbs who notices the look in her eyes and backs the team up

Let me show you boys my birthright follows me. They nod dumly and Kate's smirk turns into a smile and she pushes off the tree abruptly grabs their hands turns them into the tree she grabs the gem that the three of them have time to tell you what happened yesterday Jane and Maura reconciled after an accented after our dad's death in the wherehouse swipe he would have shot her but then he wouldn't have anyone to protect his youngest and the princess of the family Maura our mother always had thought we were dead but now with what's happened she knows we aren't but it was for the best with Paddys enemies after us at the time now that's all ended

Wait a minute Paddy Doyle head of the most feared Irish mob in Boston found someone to have kids with can I see something Kate

Kate smirks always Tim don't worry I can change back so he won't know what do you want

Your finger for a print running through the database

You don't believe I'm his eldest abbs has the DNA to prove it and the tunnel of hope in sariavjo

Yes I do Kate and it's true but it's still you none of you are like him

No if anything Maura's like our mom Kate says as the gem shifts her back to her outfit and lands in her hand to be placed back in and she smiles at Gibbs getting back to work he comes up to her just as Tony's arriving to whisper proud of you Katie Tony will know in due time. Kate smiles and nods at his ghost and Gibbs smirks go crazy Kate just make it subtle Doyle

Father daughter share mirror smirks and Kate works away as Tony comes to her side

I told you you'd pay for yesterday well my friend was injured and nows that time I have a little friend she nods at the ghost of her father and he begins the day of crazy and in the end he leaves with one prank with his eldest and this message keep up the good work and help protect your sisters love you my girl she smirks as she sets the last prank up before activating it with the family powers.

A few weeks later after the crazy baker case and Maura didn't want to abandon Jane so they trained together but this time kate had decided to train by rearranging her desk on her break when Jack and Grace walked back downstairs after their appointment and Jack smiles at her keep it up Kate each of you are using your powers for what's needed

It took a few months but the team took it well and they were all more accommodating to her power surges and that leads us to now with her and helene soundly sleeping and or medatanting from the strength of knowing that her sister is safe and with Jane

Gibbs is next to her and says tony needs to know and she smiles in agreement the mind message me and jack should get going if want to meet her. A year after the case they have all moved to be closer to Maura.Kate settles down with her sisters and they each think back to that let those letters that they got one from their mom one from their dad. So as happy for your wedding as I am and I am , I can't wait for the wedding and don't worry Tony won’t know I promise you.

She smiles and nods.

6 months later at the wedding in which both of their mothers and their dad and the whole of the homicide division and crime lab as well as one of Jane's informants the entirety of the rizzoli clan minus frank and almost the whole of the ncis crew and Helene and Cailin and Jill, Cindy and Claire along with Lindsay and Serena and with Abbie. This was the party

Susie was her maid of honor then Isla and Lilly with her sisters along with Cailin as bridesmaids and Jane’s best person is Vince with Barry and her sisters are up alongside the happy couple with the crowd smiling and Angela, Constance and Author along with Hope are crying happy tears. As the event draws to a close they head off on their pre approved month long leave in Paris and promises to help each other train well the others do what they can in the states

A month later they return home Kate to her ever present job with happiness and more pictures to put on her desk as she feels comfortable with the pictures being out because her family knows and that's what matters to her. So this is the order of photos her with her sisters, her mother and the triplets with Constance and Author, and her with the wedding party and the crews as well , Cindy, Jill, Clarie with the wedding party, and a rizzoli family photo as well and of course the solo photos with jane and her sisters and her own as well. The team filters in as Kate finishes up with her family magic in placing the photos on her desk the team that was at the wedding smiles at Kate’s clear happiness for her youngest sister minus Tony she spends that morning training and talking with Jack then she heads back down to make true on the promise to her sister of sketching the wedding party using the wedding family photos as a reference point. She happily sketches away when she answers the call from Linsday who she almost instantly sparked up a kinship with.

Hey Kate

Hey Lins what's up i'm working on the thing i promised Maura

Good good see you in town when your done

Always

She smiles as she ends the call and gets into sketching the family around the wedding party and while she finishes up with Cailin Tony walks up to the desks after his lunch break.

Whats up Katie what are you doing

Sketching and making true on a promise and i have to add color

Abby smiles at the paper and says looking good Katie and I can't wait to see the finished product. It's looking just as good as that day.

Thanks Abbs and of course you will im just about done with it ill be done by tomorrow and i'm taking a sabbatical for a few weeks to help them move Angela and enact their secret plan

Fun

Yep considering they already started and succeeded and Helenes down there with her baby drama

Well tell them congrats from me and the team will fly down toward the end of your sabbatical just promise to keep me updated

I will love you all of you

While in their home town the family will be split four ways and Angela has moved about a month before Helene had her Baby Boy Jackson and Jane and Maura came clean about their plan knowing that they couldn’t hide it any longer. This is the text she sent her the day of each of those events along with a little of the surprising news themselves.

She got it done we each get a fourth of the estate and a fourth of MEND. and everything is going well

Congrats Kate

And Angela is all moved out and they are going to have to tell her considering that their having twins a two lovely girls and their considering naming them after their sisters so yay and Helene’s about ready to pop

Congratulations im glad shes moved out we should be down before the twins are born

Ok plus they framed the picture. And Lindsay and her crew and Abbie and Serena arrived today

Yay. and she also sent her a photo of Jackson the next day with this text he's here he looks just like Helene and you know who has no idea that he exists but he has no rights but welcome the newest member of my family Jackson Michell and he is the cutest and he came home last night and met the whole family even TJ except you guys So were all losing sleep right now.

Yeah i won’t tell the team

Good just a few more weeks for the twins less than two months

Be down soon

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Oggi ho finito di leggere You Are Now Less Dumb di David McRaney. (prossimamente aggiornerò questo post con le foto alla consueta maniera di questa rubrica)

Non credo che esista già una versione in italiano di questo libro. Io l'ho preso usato con copertina rigida, era di una biblioteca nel Wisconsin, la Whitefish Bay Public Library. Qualche sottolineatura e qualche mini macchia tra le pagine non mi hanno infastidito.

Si tratta di nuovo di poco meno di 300 pagine e lo stile è colloquiale, ma i capitoli sono meno della metà di quelli del primo e quindi più lunghi. I termini usati non sono quasi mai tecnici tuttavia il vocabolario dell'autore è variegato abbastanza da avermi fatto fare avanti e indietro da Google traduttore anche questa volta. Sento di essere stato messo più in difficoltà rispetto a quello che ho scritto per You Are Not So Smart. Perciò, nonostante il contenuto prezioso, non consiglierei questo come primo libro serio da leggere in inglese.

Ho annotato i capitoli che mi hanno colpito di più. L'effetto alone (vedere anche Affect Heuristic): il bias che contamina la percezione che abbiamo di qualcuno o qualcosa, facendoci estendere senza motivo logico la positività o negatività di una caratteristica su altre caratteristiche. L'esaurimento dell'Io: (ancora da studiare) secondo cui la nostra forza di volontà e la quantità di decisioni che possiamo prendere sono risorse finite. Spingerci ai limiti in questo senso diventa sempre più difficile e rischia di ancorarci ancora di più ai nostri bisogni. Soprattutto nelle situazioni in cui sappiamo che faticheremo necessitiamo di mantenere il controllo "ricaricandoci" regolarmente in modo controllato. Falsa origine dello stimolo: crediamo di individuare correttamente la causa del nostro stato d'animo ma spesso attribuiamo un sentimento alla prima cosa che notiamo intorno a noi o che ci riguarda, soprattutto se si tratta di una persona. Uno stato di "eccitazione", ma in realtà qualsiasi sentimento, potrebbe risultare molto influente sul rapporto che abbiamo con qualcuno. Avevo già idea che i legami migliori si creassero con le avventure, con il dolore. L'ignoranza pluralistica: sentiamo di essere nella minoranza su certi argomenti quando non è detto che sia così. La maggioranza delle persone crede che la maggior parte di un gruppo pensi come di fatto (spesso) pensa soltanto una minoranza. La fallacia "nessun vero scozzese": revocare, per quanto ci riguarda, e retroattivamente, a una persona l'appartenenza ad un gruppo a noi caro, in base a un comportamento il quale non consideriamo accettabile. Le definizioni, i gruppi.. non sono rigidi e immutabili. Per quanto possiamo raccontarci quello che vogliamo per cercare di capire ciò che ci circonda e comunicare fra noi, la realtà umana è più sfumata delle etichette. La cognizione dei vestiti: vestirsi in una certa maniera ci può influenzare irrazionalmente, facendoci comportare/lavorare/comunicare in modo consono. Io questo devo tenerlo in mente, perché non ci faccio molto caso. Deindividuazione: l'anonimato (dato anche da un particolare modo di vestirsi) insieme a una o più influenze esterne (magari scaturite da una persona sola) ci può portare a fare cose estreme, nel bene e nel male, come salvare una vita o provocare il suicidio di una persona. Non riesco a immaginare come potrei mai disallinearmi da me stesso fino a questo punto, ma proprio per questo ancora di più è da ricordare. Effetto della sovragiustificazione: fare di una nostra passione un lavoro può portarci ad ascrivere le emozioni positive al guadagno e non all'attività stessa. A seconda di come si vive un'attività, in che modo la iniziamo o ci viene offerta, accettare soldi potrebbe portarci a quantificare, a impegnarci soltanto per la ricompensa monetaria. Per questo sarebbe rischioso accettare stipendi per le nostre passioni, mentre possiamo tranquillamente accettare riconoscimenti o ricompense saltuarie senza rischiare di inquinare i nostri interessi.

#libri #bias #you are now less dumb #David McRaney #psychology

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Currently reading How Minds Change by David McRaney

Very good book so far. Would highly recommend. Is helping me understand what happened with me and my mom. I kind of already knew on a subconscious level but this really lays it all out very well. Queers who have been ostracized by their parents and can't understand why, read this book. It's not gonna magically heal me. But its helping me cope.

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Bạn không thông minh lắm đâu - David McRaney

“Bạn không thông minh lắm đâu” của tác giả David McRaney. Đây là cuốn sách minh họa thú vị về những điều mà bạn vẫn tưởng là đúng nhưng sự thật lại trái ngược hoàn toàn. Bạn luôn cho rằng bản thân thông minh, đỉnh của đỉnh, bản thân sáng tỏ mọi điều và không bị đánh lừa,… Tuy nhiên, tất cả đều chỉ là suy tưởng của chính bạn mà thôi, thực chất bạn không giỏi giang như vậy thậm chí còn rất thiếu…

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