Olga Khazan
Staff Writer at The Atlantic
Host at How to Build a Happy Life
Writer @theatlantic with a new book about personality change: https://t.co/OoPP2cxbuj Email [email protected] Newsletter: https://t.co/9ldi1lk4CB
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3 days ago |
olgakhazan.substack.com | Olga Khazan
ME, BUT BETTER, my book about personality change, is out now. If you haven’t yet, please pick up your copy today. And if you’ve read the book, it would mean the world to me if you could leave an Amazon review. Thank you!As I’ve been promoting my book on personality change, I’ve been getting one question over and over: Why is personality important? That is, why should you want to change one or more of you personality traits?
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1 week ago |
theatlantic.com | Olga Khazan
Jonathan Haidt on how the show portrays the horrors of a screens-based childhood Adolescence, the blockbuster Netflix miniseries, presents a terrible possibility—that a seemingly “good” kid in a normal English town, with two well-meaning parents, could be drawn so far down the poisoned well of the internet that he stabs a classmate to death. Terrible, but not unfathomable: Just last year, a 17-year-old in England stabbed several children to death after viewing violent instruction manuals online.
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1 week ago |
theatlantic.com | Olga Khazan
The first sign of Mom Fatigue is leaving weird stuff in the fridge. Olivia Walch once got so tired that she put a box of Cheerios in the refrigerator. For Erin Wamsley, it was mugs of coffee and clean dishes; for Amanda Lamp, a pen. Maya Cash Carpenter told me her car keys sometimes turn up there. As I interviewed mothers about the symptoms of their persistent exhaustion, they described brain fog, sleepiness, and general discombobulation.
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1 week ago |
apu.fi | Olga Khazan
The Atlanticin alkuperäisen, englanninkielisen jutun voit lukea tästä linkistä. Suosittu venäläinen vitsi menee jotakuinkin näin: Mitä sellaista kapitalismi sai aikaan vuodessa, mitä kommunismi ei saanut aikaan edes 70 vuodessa? Vastaus: se sai kommunismin näyttämään hyvältä. Niinkin äskettäin kuin vuonna 2015 lähes 70 prosenttia venäläisistä oli sitä mieltä, että Neuvostoliiton hajoaminen oli huono asia, ja lähes 60 prosenttia uskoi, että Stalinilla oli enimmäkseen myönteinen rooli historiassa.
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3 weeks ago |
olgakhazan.substack.com | Olga Khazan
ME, BUT BETTER, my book about personality change, is out now. If you haven’t yet, please pick up your copy today. And if you’ve read the book, it would mean the world to me if you could leave an Amazon review.
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RT @interintellect_: IN 3 DAYS✨ Is personality change possible? @olgakhazan (Me, But Better) and @TheAnnaGat explore the science, myths, a…
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“Personality” is often a role rehearsed in the family system—mistaken for self. Not reflections of choice. ⸻ What feels like “just how I am” might be exactly how the system needed you to be.
On Substack, I wrote about why so many journalists seem to be liberal: https://t.co/TR5Nk4zRsK
