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Views Read Edit View history. And then to rouse yourself to do all useful things, to reach with thought and deed the ideal in your brain, to give your fancies wing, that they, like chemist bees, may find art's nectar in the weeds of common things, to look with trained and steady eyes for facts, to find the subtle threads that join the distant with the now, to increase knowledge, to take burdens from the weak, to develop the brain, to defend the right, to make a palace for the soul. This is real religion.

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Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted. Because you know the weakness in the heart of your children, and you assign each of them only the burden they can bear. May you understand my love—because it is the only thing I have that is really mine, the only thing that I will be able to take with me into the next life.

Please allow it to be courageous and pure; please make it capable of surviving the snares of the world.

The Writings of Suzy Kassem. What doesn't surrender in reverence is blasphemous to a high opinion of oneself - the burden of self-importance.

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The narcissist reconstructs his own law of gravity which states that all things and all creatures must adhere to his personal satisfaction, but when they do not, the pain is far more intense than it is for one who is free from the clamors of 'I'. He sipped at the coffee and remembered where he had gone wrong -- or right. He'd simply gotten tired -- of the insurance game, of the small offices and high glass partitions, the clients; he'd simply gotten tired of cheating on his wife, of squeezing secretaries in the elevator and in the halls; he'd gotten tired of Christmas parties and New Year's parties and birthdays, and payments on new cars and furniture payments -- light, gas, water -- the whole bleeding complex of necessities.

He'd gotten tired and quit, that's all. The divorce came soon enough and the drinking came soon enough, and suddenly he was out of it. A tendency to rely on gut instincts rather than rational thought might also explain why a surprisingly high number of Mensa members believe in the paranormal; or why someone with an IQ of is about twice as likely to max out their credit card. Indeed, Stanovich sees these biases in every strata of society.

The surprising downsides of being clever

Igor Grossmann, at the University of Waterloo in Canada, thinks we need to turn our minds to an age-old concept: His approach is more scientific that it might at first sound. As the volunteers talked, a panel of psychologists judged their reasoning and weakness to bias: View image of High achievers tend to lament opportunities missed in their lives Credit: High scores turned out to predict greater life satisfaction, relationship quality, and, crucially, reduced anxiety and rumination — all the qualities that seem to be absent in classically smart people.

Wiser reasoning even seemed to ensure a longer life — those with the higher scores were less likely to die over intervening years.

In the future, employers may well begin to start testing these abilities in place of IQ; Google has already announced that it plans to screen candidates for qualities like intellectual humility , rather than sheer cognitive prowess. Fortunately, wisdom is probably not set in stone — whatever your IQ score. He points out that we often find it easier to leave our biases behind when we consider other people, rather than ourselves.

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Hopefully, more research will suggest many similar tricks. The challenge will be getting people to admit their own foibles. As Socrates had it: View image of Getty Images Credit: The surprising downsides of being drop dead gorgeous.

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