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Dec 8, 2022

A Handbook for Designing Smarter, Wiser Groups

The Science of Crafting a Utopian Society Tectonic shifts are stirring in society. People are questioning norms and beliefs inherited from prior generations. Companies and employees are no longer loyal to one another, as the average adult holds 12 jobs in their lifetime. A large proportion of society no longer lives near family and friends, which accounts…

Psychology

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A Handbook for Designing Smarter, Wiser Groups
A Handbook for Designing Smarter, Wiser Groups
Psychology

8 min read


Jun 2, 2022

How to Raise Virtue Prodigies

Leveraging Curiosity in Conversations While walking my 9-year-old daughter Violet to elementary school, we pass “the little physicist in the Radio Flyer Red Wagon.” Always in matching pajama tops and bottoms. Always pulled by his grandfather.1 The little physicist parks the wagon in front of a speed bump. The grandfather…

Parenting

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How to Raise Virtue Prodigies
How to Raise Virtue Prodigies
Parenting

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Mar 11, 2022

Rethinking Trigger Warnings

Quick Note: I rarely write on Medium. Migrate to my Provoked newsletter. Having just published a book on questioning dysfunctional social norms, rules, and authorities (The Art of Insubordination: How to Dissent and Defy Effectively), I’ve noticed how many problems exist in conventional thinking. We treat children and adults as…

Psychology

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Psychology

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Apr 7, 2021

An Ode to Those Who Believe Both Political Parties Suck and Neither Represents Our Views

Three months after the presidential inauguration and I am still waiting for Democrat and Republican platforms to prove that there is a home for people like me. I am a pragmatist. I am a scientist. Outside of close friends and family, my trust is conditional. I voted for Democratic Presidential…

Wellbeing

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An Ode to Those Who Believe Both Political Parties Suck and Neither Represents Our Views
An Ode to Those Who Believe Both Political Parties Suck and Neither Represents Our Views
Wellbeing

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Jan 8, 2021

What Not to Do Following the Assault at the United States Capitol

If the education system refuses to acknowledge conservative leaning and liberal leaning students as people who want to be educated and people who can acquire knowledge and critical thinking skills, you will get divisions instead of understanding. There are some bad ways of educating: Dismiss students who don’t think like…

Diversity

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What Not to Do Following the Assault at the United States Capitol
What Not to Do Following the Assault at the United States Capitol
Diversity

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Jan 1, 2021

What Does Awareness of Mortality Influence? Forward Thinking Reflections for 2021

For all my friends who survived the cluster fuck of 2020, I hope this is a better year. For our family, we lost two of the great ones. Irreplaceable. Vortices never to be filled. Phone calls never to be returned. Cravings for contact that produce often unbearable unscratched itches. Awareness…

Wellness

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What Does Awareness of Mortality Influence? Forward Thinking Reflections for 2021
What Does Awareness of Mortality Influence? Forward Thinking Reflections for 2021
Wellness

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Oct 25, 2020

How do you teach youth about tolerance in the age of Trumpism?

Four weeks ago I talked to my father-in-law on the phone about overzealous sports parents in Northern Virginia. The dad on my 13-year-old daughter’s soccer team who feels compelled to whistle multiple times per game whenever his kid is not running fast enough for him. The dad who rings a…

Politics

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How do you teach youth about tolerance in the age of Trumpism?
How do you teach youth about tolerance in the age of Trumpism?
Politics

7 min read


Sep 26, 2020

Do You Really Support Demographic Diversity? You are Being Tested in 2020

Brace yourself for an unpopular thought — if you ever sent a post, meme, or statement supporting women leaders, asked for more women leaders, or liked a post that someone else sent supporting women leadership, then why aren’t you celebrating Amy Coney Barrett as a potential Supreme Court nominee? …

Women Leaders

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Do You Really Support Demographic Diversity? You are Being Tested in 2020
Do You Really Support Demographic Diversity? You are Being Tested in 2020
Women Leaders

2 min read


Jun 16, 2020

A few thoughts on squandering human potential

Be careful of bracket creep when throwing around the words racist sexist and evil. Eventually the words will mean nothing other than someone expressed an opinion you disagreed with. The consequence: you won’t be able to discern who does and doesn’t have bad intentions. …

Racism

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Racism

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Jun 12, 2020

The Psychological Challenge of Changing Systemic Racism

With reluctance, a few thoughts on this long overdue movement to deliver on the promise of fairness and equality across racial (and other demographic) lines. If you don’t create space for people to present their nuanced views you won’t hear about them. And you’ll think there is more support for…

Racism

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Racism

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Todd Kashdan

Todd Kashdan

2.5K Followers

Professor, psychologist, well-being researcher. For my latest writings read my Provoked column at: toddkashdan.com and my new book THE ART OF INSUBORDINATION

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