1.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIND1AJlSiM
"You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again."
"Live with a steady superiority over life - don't be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn after happiness; it is, after all, all the same: the bitter doesn't last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing."
"It has to be the fulfillment of a permanent, earnest duty so that one's life journey may become above all an experience of moral growth: to leave life a better human being than one started it."
2. Study finds quiet friendship better for some
Sky News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjufeWQQZq0
3. Stefan Molyneux's Bomb in the Brain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CloA1pkAXHw
Molyneux posits a "bomb in the brain" as a metaphor for the psychological and societal damage he believes results from childhood abuse and irrational thinking, which he links to resistance to reason and evidence.
Resistance to Reason: The "bomb" is a psychological block that prevents individuals from using logic and accepting empirical facts, particularly those that conflict with their upbringing or emotional comfort
4. Carroll Izard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzDq1Okktw8
Izard proposes that infants are born with basic emotions that are universal, meaning all humans are born ready to experience and express these emotions. Emotions are present at birth, are hardwired, and do not rely on cognitive processes.
