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From Man’s Search for Meaning — ← Back to chapter overviewShareArrival produces a stunned unreality. The mind oscillates between terror and a strange emotional distance, as if it…

From Man’s Search for Meaning — ← Back to chapter overviewShareThe camp experience is described as a gradual stripping away—of identity, privacy, and the future. Days become repetitive,…

From Man’s Search for Meaning — ← Back to chapter overviewShareThe central move is a reversal: stop demanding that life make sense in general, and start asking what…

From Man’s Search for Meaning — ← Back to chapter overviewShareThis is not comfort literature. It is a record of what happens when life is reduced to bare…

From Thinking, Fast and Slow — ← Back to chapter overviewShareWhen you make life choices—jobs, cities, relationships—you often consult memory and imagination, not lived experience. The remembering self…

From Thinking, Fast and Slow — ← Back to chapter overviewShareExperienced well-being is the quality of moments: how you feel as time passes. It is different from life…

From Thinking, Fast and Slow — ← Back to chapter overviewShareThe remembering self does not store raw experience. It constructs a story: highlights, turning points, explanations, endings. That…

From Thinking, Fast and Slow — ← Back to chapter overviewShareYou live life twice: once as experience, once as memory. The experiencing self answers, “How is it right…

From Thinking, Fast and Slow — ← Back to chapter overviewShareA frame is not decoration. It defines what counts as a gain, what counts as a loss, and…

From Thinking, Fast and Slow — ← Back to chapter overviewSharePreferences can reverse when nothing substantive changes. The switch is often caused by how options are presented or…

From Thinking, Fast and Slow — ← Back to chapter overviewShareYou do not treat all money as interchangeable. The mind keeps separate accounts: savings, windfalls, “play money,” painful…

From Thinking, Fast and Slow — ← Back to chapter overviewShareCase-by-case decision making invites inconsistency. Each new problem feels unique, so the mind improvises—and improvisation amplifies mood, framing,…