Project Armannd

In this post I initially planned to talk about the benefits that different opinions present to society. But I had a slight change of mind after stumbling upon a brilliant independent short film on choice.

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Mr Roberts finds himself awoken inexplicably in a white room. A man sits before him at a desk and in [...]

Because many readers responded positively to a previous post that required a simple counting of how many F’s are in a text, I thought of posting another brain exercise. This one will get your brain on its knees using some simple colors.

What you’ll need to do in this exercise is to read aloud the color [...]

“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.” - Albert Einstein

I’ve always agreed to that. And because of that, I’m gonna test your intelligence with a very simple problem.

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Confidence per se isn’t bad. It frees us from the paralysis by analysis. The moment when confidence turns into a problem is when it becomes overconfidence.

Overconfidence refers to the human tendency to be more confident in one’s behaviours, attributes and physical characteristics than one ought to be. Surveying drivers, Ola Svenson (1981) [...]

If I’d show you a simple drawing for just a second, how many details would you remember? If you would see the picture of a person for the length of a second, and after a second of pause you’d be presented with the same picture containing a different person, you think that you would notice the difference?

If you’re thinking of answering ”Yes!” to that question, you’d better think again…

Daniel Simmons, a psychologist at the Illinois University, conducted a simple experiment, about [...]