Project Armannd

The original white bear paper documented the fact that people can, but only for brief periods of time, suppress thoughts of white bears. But on removal of suppression instructions, people are typically flooded with the thoughts they were supposed to suppress.

photo by: René Ehrhardt
Enough is as good as a feast.
– English Proverb
This paper has been around for a while, but I’m sure there are quite a few people that haven’t read or even heard of it. It is a study showing how having too many choices can result in lower satisfaction from the choice made, lower [...]

Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people really talk, make paltry human enterprises seem important. Singers and musicians show us human beings making sounds far more lovely than human beings really make.

“If I don’t seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry to disappoint you.” - Randy Pausch
Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch (Oct. 23, 1960 - July 25, 2008) gave his last lecture at the university Sept. 18, 2007, before a packed McConomy Auditorium.

In his moving presentation, “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams,” Pausch talked [...]

Photo by: chrisjfry
One of the biggest enemies of a healthy mind is uniformity (lacking diversity or variation in its interactions). That is, having a homogenous interaction with the world and filtering out everything that does not fit one’s interests.

Imagine a John Doe who only watches horror movies, listens only to country music, eats only chicken, [...]