3 Ideas You Might Have Missed
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Welcome to the Curiosity Chronicle Week in Review—a quick roundup of this week's ideas to help you build a high-performing, healthy, and wealthy life.
Week At A Glance:
- Weekly Wisdom: Being A Regular
- Wednesday: The Stories You Tell Yourself
- Friday: The Loud Liker Theory
Wisdom Worth Sharing:
The older I get, the more I realize the beauty in being a regular somewhere. Local coffee shop. Gym. Small restaurant. Whatever. There’s something special about the way these third spaces create a feeling of belonging. Real community. It’s deeply human and seriously underrated.
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Wednesday: The Stories You Tell Yourself
When I was 13 years old, a single story changed the course of my life.
But to understand it, I need to take you back in time to a strange experiment from decades ago.
Neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga was studying patients who had their corpus callosum surgically severed. His experiments led him to hypothesize that the left hemisphere has a specialized system he called The Interpreter, whose responsibility is to find clear cause and effect.
Its job is simple: To take scattered, seemingly random data and facts about the world in front of you and stitch them into a coherent story that feels true.
The problem is that we’d rather have a story that’s wrong than no story at all.
For me, The Interpreter began telling a story when I was young: I wasn’t very smart. My sister was the smart one. I had to be something else.
On Wednesday, I wrote about the stories we tell ourselves and the empowering truth that allowed me to confront my own:
You wrote the stories. Which means you can rewrite them...
(read the full piece here)
Friday: The Loud Liker Theory
Confession: I’ve never been someone who was a natural in social settings.
As something of an introvert, I struggled to build new adult relationships. I often felt others weren’t responding to my social signals. In most cases, I just assumed they didn’t like me and moved on.
But it turns out I was actually falling victim to a damning collision of two psychological phenomena:
- Signal Amplification Bias: Our fear of rejection in social situations tempers our ability to convey social signals, and blinds our ability to recognize that tempering effect.
- The Liking Gap: We assume others like us less than they actually do.
In effect, you send less than you think, and you hear less than they send.
Two people who like each other leave an interaction convinced the other one doesn’t.
On Friday, I shared a simple solution that has completely transformed my experience with adult friendships:
Like people out loud...
(read the full piece here)
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The best life purchase of my year: The Matic Robot!
To be honest, I expected to be disappointed when I bought a Matic in 2025. Every tech CEO I knew was telling me I needed one, but I figured it was all hype. 30 days later, I was asking the CEO to let me invest.
It’s magical. Works in total darkness. Handles wet or dry messes with mop and vacuum functionality. So quiet that we run it at night. Saves us hours every week. Automate a cleaning cycle each night or simply point to the mess and say, "Hey Matic, clean this" and off it goes.
I can't stop recommending it to my friends. I even bought one for my parents and sister. Use the link below or code FRIEND-SAHILBLOOM at checkout to get a free year of HEPA bags with your Matic purchase!
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Sahil Bloom
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