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fromSilicon Canals
3 days ago

Psychology says people who fold their towels one specific way and can't stand when others don't display these 6 traits about control that show up everywhere - Silicon Canals

Preferences for order (towel folding, dishwasher loading, desk organization) reflect underlying need for control, predictability, and difficulty trusting others.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Tim Dowling: how a toilet-based epiphany saved me from the January blues

The dates don't matter, I wanted to say. It's the 31-day stretch that's important you could do it whenever. But of course this is wrong: we reserve these privations for January on purpose. Despite, or perhaps because of the month's prodigious capacity to disappoint, we go out of our way to make January hard on ourselves. It starts with the tremendously misleading idea of a clean slate.
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