Category:Behavior

Humans: the manual. This, as one might expect, is a mess.

Communication

• How I Stopped Trying to Control My Partner and Took Responsibility for My Own Happiness by Hailey Magee at The Gottman Institute
• Requests vs Boundaries vs Ultimatums: The Ultimate Guide by Hailey Magee at The Gottman Institute

Mental health

Topics

• Burnout
• Hoarding
• Imposter Syndrome
• Mourning
• Relationships and sex and all that
• Relaxation

Articles

• 19 Therapy Stories That'll Make You Say, "Dang, That's So True" by Anna Borges on Buzzfeed
• Queer Female of Color: The Highest Difficulty Setting There Is? Gaming Rhetoric as Gender Capital by Lisa Nakamura on Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology

Tools

• You feel like shit This is meant to be an interactive flow chart for people who struggle with self care, executive dysfunction, and/or who have trouble reading internal signals. It's designed to take as much of the weight off of you as possible, so each decision is very easy and doesn't require much judgment.
• This chart of feelings may help you identify whether you are fine, in fight, flight, or freeze.

Why we are wired the way we are

Topics

• Cognitive Biases
• Learning and making mistakes
• Motivation
• Racism

Articles

• Barack Obama talks about courage
• Careful there, your solipsism is showing by Livinggraciously
• On being generous - by Dylan Wilbanks on The Pastry Box Project
• Breaking Point - on being kind, by Christina Wodke.
• Sexism
• We May Be Born With an Urge to Help by Nicholas Wade on Tuscaloosanews.com
• How 26 Tweets Broke My Filter Bubble by B.J. May on Medium

Physical Health

• Diet and Nutrition
• Exercise

Social Mores

• Everything you don't know about tipping
• How to write a thank-you note

Stories to make you feel good

• A real Good Samaritan - the story of a train conductor who changed a life

Actual science? Junk science? Probably the latter

• Four Temperaments predating actual psychology