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Once you make a post, it slowly floats away into oblivion. On your profile page, every new post pushes older posts further away. I wish there was a functionality to pin some posts, or change the UI of

In the last edition of The Influential Mind Made Me Think, we talked about crowd wisdom. In order to bring out the good and mitigate the bad when reaching a decision as a group, we need to make sure that

The famous wisdom of the crowds can be traced back to Francis Glaton's paper published in the prestigious journal "Nature". During the 1907 Fat Stock and Poultry Exhibition, a competition was

Through the last posts of The Influential Mind Made Me Think, I have talked about how the decisions and actions of others influence us. I believe this will be my last post where I talk about how such

By now, I am 3/4 done with "The Influential Mind". If we assume that every post I have done on it is a great idea or concept it has taught me or helped me expand on, there have been 12 so far.

I think part of me decided to study Cognitive and Decision Making Sciences because I wanted to be able to "hack" my own thought/emotion processes. After reading Malcolm Gladwell and Dan Ariely,

On the last edition of "The Influential Mind Made Me Think", I talked about how the stress generated by a failure can make a person more attentive towards negative cues around them. As a result

On the last edition of "The Influential Mind Made me Think", I talked about how stress makes people more aware of negative cues around them. Furthermore, it makes people give a greater weight

Let's go back in time to March 21st, 1983 in the village of Arrabah, West Bank. A seventeen year old girl sitting in class suddenly started experiencing an irritating cough and shortness of breath. Shortly

In a previous edition of the The Influential Mind Made Me Think I talked about how we love to have the ability to choose. I believe that this love comes from the capability of learning from our decisions

On my last post of the influential mind, I talked about agency and how important it is for us, humans. Nevertheless, I also talk about how sometimes letting go can be beneficial since any one person cannot

Not too long ago, in one of my posts I talked about the possible non-existence of free will and the illusion of agency that our consciousness generates. After writing that paper for school and sharing

I could say that during my childhood and all the way into my teens, I thought of most phobias as ridiculous and easy to overcome if the person actually put work in it. Even though my perception of phobias

I kept on reading "The Influential Mind" by Tali Sharot. As expected, after reading about 15 pages, I had to stop and think. I will be sharing my thoughts here. When I started writing this post,

Some time ago, I started reading Tali Sharot's "The Influential Mind". Because of the way the book is written and its content, every couple of pages I need to stop and think. On one of those

Recently, I have been reading "The Influential Mind" by Tali Sharot. I am not far in the book yet, but some very interesting points have been made already. The general purpose of the book is