“The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.”

Set the timer (5-30 min), take 20 seconds of prep if you like, start talking. Jot your thoughts onto the sticky-note board.

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• Telling yourself 'you can do this' works better than telling yourself 'I can do this'. When your inner voice uses your own name, it's as if someone else is coaching you, and you calm down. Why do we grow stronger when we address ourselves like a friend instead of as 'I'?
• The IKEA effect: we value the things we built and sweated over ourselves more than they're worth. Does the effort we pour into a relationship or a job make it genuinely precious, or just blind us to its flaws?
• Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity.
• The orange peel theory says asking your partner to peel an orange tests their love. Can small favors really measure a relationship, and should you ever test a partner?
• A bilingual person remembers the same event differently depending on which language they tell it in. Describing an accident in English they focus on who did it; in Spanish, on what happened, because the grammar pushes them that way. Does memory hold what we lived, or what we said about it?