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title: 'Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other'
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# Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

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| **Title** | [Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004DL0KW0) |
| **Author** | [Sherry Turkle](https://www.amazon.comundefined) |
| **Book on Kindle** | <a href="kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004DL0KW0" target="_blank">Open in Kindle</a> |
| **Tags** | #Kindle #books |

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Bulletproof Confidence: The Art of Not Caring What People Think and Living
Fearlessly (Be Confident and Fearless Book 6)
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# Bulletproof Confidence: The Art of Not Caring What People Think and Living Fearlessly (Be Confident and Fearless Book 6)

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| **Title** | [Bulletproof Confidence: The Art of Not Caring What People Think and Living Fearlessly (Be Confident and Fearless Book 6)](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074C4RZ3B) |
| **Author** | [Patrick King](https://www.amazon.comundefined) |
| **Book on Kindle** | <a href="kindle://book?action=open&asin=B074C4RZ3B" target="_blank">Open in Kindle</a> |
| **Tags** | #Kindle #books |

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## Highlight

Anyone that’s had a physical transformation can attest to the fact that treatment simply changes when you’re in better shape. ^ref-44575
- Location: [95](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B074C4RZ3B&location=95)

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## Highlight

Socially confident people expect to be accepted. When they meet strangers, they expect to make a good impression and don’t get entangled in or stymied by fears that they will be negatively perceived by others. They take for granted that people will react positively to them. They never approach situations thinking, “What if they don’t like me?” Instead they think, “I hope I like them.” ^ref-54557
- Location: [329](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B074C4RZ3B&location=329)

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## Highlight

Confidence is built through the life-changing magic of doing, taking action, making a leap of faith, closing your eyes and walking forward, and going for it. Stop thinking and planning and just reach for the unknown. ^ref-22148
- Location: [530](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B074C4RZ3B&location=530)

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## Highlight

Fearlessness is the ability to do something despite the fact that you are terrified of it. Fearlessness ignores all negative consequences, while confidence is the understanding that negative consequences will be acceptable and unlikely. ^ref-55210
- Location: [580](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B074C4RZ3B&location=580)

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## Highlight

perfectionism is an unhealthy behavior that occurs precisely because of a lack of confidence.   You might call yourself a perfectionist, or someone with extremely high standards for quality. ^ref-12836
- Location: [731](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B074C4RZ3B&location=731)

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## Highlight

Perfectionism is a disease that is best battled by pursuing excellence, vulnerability, and realizing that the label of perfectionist is used as a disguise. ^ref-29348
- Location: [837](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B074C4RZ3B&location=837)

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Remember, when you act confident, people will perceive you as confident. ^ref-34475
- Location: [1000](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B074C4RZ3B&location=1000)

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## Highlight

For perspective, the most common instance where people speak quickly is when they are nervous. Therefore, when you speak slowly and deliberately, you send the message that you are calm, in control, and sure of what you are saying. ^ref-25508
- Location: [1003](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B074C4RZ3B&location=1003)

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## Highlight

People look for signs of strength and confidence, and posture is one of the easiest to spot. Tilt your chin up, stick your chest out, pinch your shoulder blades together, and don’t minimize the space you take up. Control your environment and mark it as yours. ^ref-51398
- Location: [1011](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B074C4RZ3B&location=1011)

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## Highlight

Recognize the power and importance of eye contact and pledge to use it more frequently and for no less than one second. ^ref-4544
- Location: [1029](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B074C4RZ3B&location=1029)

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## Highlight

When you’re not thankful for who you are and for the skills and talents you have, you are putting yourself in a position where you can only be unhappy. ^ref-13638
- Location: [1057](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B074C4RZ3B&location=1057)

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## Highlight

What would you do in your life if you had the confidence to do it? ^ref-44198
- Location: [1082](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B074C4RZ3B&location=1082)

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## Highlight

Everything that happens in your world is neutral. Since bad or good does not exist in external sources, it logically flows that all emotions come from within. Each circumstance you face doesn’t necessarily come bundled with a set of emotions. The narrative or story we tell ourselves is what creates our feelings. ^ref-3597
- Location: [1285](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B074C4RZ3B&location=1285)

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## Highlight

Self-efficacy can be described as a having the belief in our ability to manage the challenges of life. ^ref-37294
- Location: [1323](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B074C4RZ3B&location=1323)

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## Highlight

Self-respect, meanwhile, is the sureness we feel in our personal worth as human beings, regardless of any other circumstances. ^ref-51901
- Location: [1327](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B074C4RZ3B&location=1327)

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## Highlight

Practicing self-acceptance means accepting our body, thoughts, feelings, emotions, and past actions, as these are what constitute our present reality. ^ref-54258
- Location: [1378](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B074C4RZ3B&location=1378)

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## Highlight

Practicing self-responsibility means taking full control of our lives, no longer allowing our personal fulfillment to be dependent on other people and circumstances. ^ref-656
- Location: [1405](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B074C4RZ3B&location=1405)

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## Highlight

The practice of self-assertiveness is being open and genuine about who you are, and standing up for yourself to fulfill your needs and wants; it is what enables people with high self-esteem to be at ease in expressing their thoughts, feelings, and desires to others. ^ref-53434
- Location: [1427](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B074C4RZ3B&location=1427)

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## Highlight

To practice living purposefully means to have goals based on our values and desires, and to make decisions and act in a manner which is oriented with those goals. ^ref-12402
- Location: [1448](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B074C4RZ3B&location=1448)

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## Highlight

The practice of personal integrity is the alignment of our actions with our professed value system. ^ref-40814
- Location: [1465](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B074C4RZ3B&location=1465)

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## Highlight

But doing these things is a direct betrayal of our values and diminishes our sense of self-respect. Whether anybody else knows of these actions or not, how you judge yourself is of the utmost importance if you are going to have high levels of self-esteem. ^ref-45529
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Can't We All Disagree More Constructively?: from The Righteous Mind (Kindle
Single) (A Vintage Short)
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# Can't We All Disagree More Constructively?: from The Righteous Mind (Kindle Single) (A Vintage Short)

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| **Title** | [Can't We All Disagree More Constructively?: from The Righteous Mind (Kindle Single) (A Vintage Short)](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01KS1HLPC) |
| **Author** | [Jonathan Haidt](https://www.amazon.comundefined) |
| **Book on Kindle** | <a href="kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01KS1HLPC" target="_blank">Open in Kindle</a> |
| **Tags** | #Kindle #books |

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## Highlight

America’s hyperpartisanship is now a threat to the world. ^ref-13352
- Location: [67](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01KS1HLPC&location=67)

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Here’s a simple definition of ideology: “A set of beliefs about the proper order of society and how it can be achieved.” ^ref-31581
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Innate does not mean unmalleable; it means organized in advance of experience. ^ref-62429
- Location: [111](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01KS1HLPC&location=111)

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## Highlight

Conservatives believe that people are inherently imperfect and are prone to act badly when all constraints and accountability are removed. ^ref-60202
- Location: [314](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01KS1HLPC&location=314)

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## Highlight

Social capital refers to a kind of capital that economists had largely overlooked: the social ties among individuals and the norms of reciprocity and trustworthiness that arise from those ties. ^ref-43897
- Location: [328](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01KS1HLPC&location=328)

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## Highlight

Tens of millions of children, particularly poor children in big cities, had grown up with high levels of lead, which interfered with their neural development from the 1950s until the late 1970s. The boys in this group went on to cause the giant surge of criminality that terrified America—and drove it to the right—from the 1960s until the early 1990s. These young men were eventually replaced by a new generation of young men with unleaded brains (and therefore better impulse control), which seems to be part of the reason the crime rate plummeted. ^ref-27531
- Location: [482](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01KS1HLPC&location=482)

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## Highlight

Liberals stand up for victims of oppression and exclusion. They fight to break down arbitrary barriers (such as those based on race, and more recently on sexual orientation). But their zeal to help victims, combined with their low scores on the Loyalty, Authority, and Sanctity foundations, often lead them to push for changes that weaken groups, traditions, institutions, and moral capital. ^ref-29122
- Location: [648](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01KS1HLPC&location=648)

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Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into ideological teams that fight each other as though the fate of the world depended on our side winning each battle. It blinds us to the fact that each team is composed of good people who have something important to say. ^ref-5409
- Location: [731](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01KS1HLPC&location=731)

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