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Will Teaching About Growth Mindsets and Grit Work?

Vikram Bath September 14, 2017

Against the recommendations of positive psychology

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How Do You Get Good at Things?

Vikram Bath September 4, 2017

Practice makes perfect. What makes practice?

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People are their Histories

Vikram Bath August 10, 2017

If someone is good at something, it is the result of practice

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Should Random Non-political Thing be Politicized?

Vikram Bath July 17, 2017

The litmus test to sell a baby carrier

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Sonny, May I?

Kristin Devine July 3, 2017

A family is not a democracy.

Fatherhood & Conservatism

Guest Authors May 7, 2015

Guest writer Roland Dobbs, a long-time liberal, notices his political views shifting rightward with recent the arrival...

InMD in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025The DNC is run by f*cking idiots. This is why no one believes Democrats about anything. If Trump was…
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