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The Good Life → People who quietly lose respect without noticing usually have these 8 habits
Human Nature → In a 2025 study at UC San Diego, people chatted with a human and an AI at the same time and picked the AI as the real person 73 percent of the time, more often than they picked the actual human
Lives & Ideas → The Cynics argued that much of what society calls success is a performance we trap ourselves in. Modern psychology has a quieter echo — we worry far more about how we appear to others than the evidence says we need to
In Their Words → Thought of the day from Stoic philosopher Epictetus: “Men are disturbed, not by things, but by the principles and notions, which they form concerning thing.”

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