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The Dumbing Down of Humanity – Stolen Focus
“The sensation of being alive in the twenty-first century consists of the sense that our ability to pay attention—to focus—is cracking and breaking.”
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How to Achieve Something Great – Don’t Set Big Goals
“Not all those who wander are lost.”
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Vegetable Oils and the American Heart Association – Bad Science and Big Money
“How did we…get to the point where health-conscious consumers, truth-seeking journalists, and even doctors have overlooked the fundamentals of seed-oil…
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Why Vegetable (Seed) Oils are Killing You
“There is a noxious substance in your pantry—and likely your fridge and freezer, too.
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21:55
How to Cultivate Charisma – Become Socially Powerful
“…in controlled laboratory experiments, researchers were able to raise and lower people’s levels of charisma as if they were turning a dial…Charisma has…
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When Government Becomes the Enemy – Resistance Against State Injustice
The right to self-defense is perhaps the least disputed of all moral principles.
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The Loss of Intuition – Why too Much Consciousness is a Disease
“There is in us something wiser than our head.”
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Why Religious Myths Alleviate Existential Despair
Many see the myth as a relic of a bygone era, as a primitive and superstitious attempt to explain the world and our place in that is no longer needed in…
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15:43
How to Cultivate the Discipline of Great Suffering
“To live is to suffer; to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”
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23:28
Psychiatry and Big Pharma Exposed – A Corruption Beyond Measure
“Psychiatry is a science…and it has the tools and knowledge at its disposal to help us when our lives break down.
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24:32
The Drugs Don’t Work, They Make it Worse - Big Pharma and the Big Lie
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Big Pharma and The Big Lie – Mental Illness and Chemical Imbalances
“Big Pharma is one of the largest and most profitable businesses in America, and in order to sell their chemical goods to allegedly treat the…
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