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The Illusion of Control: Do We Really Have Free Will?
You might have heard this question before. It’s a typical ‘philosophical question’: maybe one you’ve thought about late at night, wondering if anything in this life is down to you. Do we really have control over our actions, or is everything we do just part of a chain of events we can’t escape?
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the ai girlfriend
Picture this: you’re a 30-something year-old man, recently single and recovering from a breakup that happened earlier on in the year. Months have passed but you still find yourself asking the same questions, dwelling on the same mistakes, searching for the same answers.
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the pendulum of trends: the neverending teenage trap
Introduction I, like many others, cringe slightly when I see old photos of myself. During a recent attempt to declutter—my so-called pre-September cleanup—I stumbled upon an old skateboard of mine. Coated in dust, it lay behind a stack of old books as a relic of my short-lived “skater girl” phase: back in 2020, my friends…
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fail fast, succeed faster: how to overcome failure
So many of us start out with these big, uncomplicated dreams that fall apart along the way. Is it a lack of time? A lack of motivation? Or is it all just a big fear of failure?
carlotalks
Big ideas, small explanations.