Bite-sized lessons for better decisions; learning from my mistakes, and from the best in science, art and business.
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There's a reason why Hitler bathed several times a day and was obsessed with cleanliness and infection: he was highly disgust-sensitive, which is linked with the Orderliness aspect of the Big Five factor Conscientiousness. Disgust is an ancient emotion to help avoid disease, and I discuss the interesting connections between disgust, disease, and authoritarianism.
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LAFM #22: There are potential problems of being too high in the Big Five trait Conscientiousness due to the link with disgust and its related behaviour, and we must also be aware of the dangers of dehumanisation language.
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30 Jun 2023
#21 How personality predicts politics
The 2018 Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal showed how a company was able to amass huge amounts of psychological (Big Five) data from your profiles, and use it to sway the democratic voting process in their favour. To prevent this from happening again, we should better understand the current research of how our personality traits predict political beliefs.
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LAFM #21: Understanding how the Big Five personality traits relate to political belief can help me appreciate the pros and cons of both sides of the political spectrum, as well as prevent myself from being politically manipulated.
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18 Jun 2023
#20 How I just recovered from COVID-19
You might scoff at the idea that vitamin C can cure the common cold or help with other viral infections, thanks to popular YouTube videos (by Vox) supposedly debunking this, but the actual research says otherwise; there is in fact an undeniable biological effect of vitamin C on viral infections, it just depends on how much you take.
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LAFM #20: The experts we blindly trust may be wrong sometimes, and there are simple solutions to health problems like the common cold in the form of cheap and safe supplements such as vitamin C.
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