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AJ Jacobs on the Enduring Power of Puzzles and Memento Mori

The Daily Stoic

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Do You Have a Dirty Mind or a Clean Mind?

With optical illusions, yet, it's all about what you have in your mind. Are you thinking about? Have you just looked at a bunch of pictures of people and so this looks like people? Or is it look like a vase? And you have some control over the frame. So if i'm el if i'm feeling gittery before a speech, am i that because i'm nervous or excited? I i just know myself, it's excited. You're te the stoics tells us a work implicit when we get offended, right? The story we tell ourselves, the picture that we see the t what we solve for, that's up to us. That's one

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