Martha Beck | fear
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Martha Beck | experience
The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become available to experience things as they are.
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Martha Beck | death
No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life’s slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.
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Martha Beck | dating
Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.
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Martha Beck | change
My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind.
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Martha Beck | change
In one century, we’ve added 28 years to our average life span – a change so rapid that our brains couldn’t possibly have evolved to accommodate it.
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