“The kids these days” are still sick of old people telling them how they’re not good enough. It’s safe to assume this is an immortal aspect of human society: Young people always exist, and older people will always complain about them. Young people, in turn, always say, “Ugh, old people just don’t get it.”

We all know people who have suffered by trusting too much: scammed customers, jilted lovers, shunned friends. Indeed, most of us have been burned by misplaced trust. These personal and vicarious experiences lead us to believe that people are too trusting, often verging on gullibility.

If you turn on the news or scroll through it on your phone, you’ll be bombarded with fear-inducing and often upsetting headlines. Mainstream news tends to focus on conflict, disaster, scandal, and politics, not subjects commonly thought to make us feel good.

If you need help getting a daily dose of good news, we can help. Here are the five best positive news websites.

Are you listening? Maybe not as effectively as you could be.

Often, if you ask a human to optimize something, they’ll make it orderly: straight lines, simple layouts and clean divisions, but when nature (or evolutionary algorithms) optimizes things, it produces redundancy, gradients, tangles, and complexity – ironically, robots produce systems that look like nature designed them, while humans produce systems that look like robots designed them.

[Here’s] a thesis about the value of complexity.

English has no precise antonym for “complain.” All the closest verbs require an object: you can praise a thing or compliment a thing, but you can complain, full stop. Whatever the opposite would be, Kurt Vonnegut says you should do it. It will make you happier.

Being in constant fight-or-flight mode makes us more anxiety-prone, and getting out of that mindset requires relinquishing our need for control.

If there’s anything that’s certain in life, it’s that things will happen that are outside of our control. Sure, we can change our environments to reduce the chances of certain things happening and do our best to prepare for worst-case scenarios, but we can’t predict if (or when) they will happen.

A philosophy which values innocent pleasure, human warmth and the rewards of creative endeavour. What’s not to like?

Occam’s razor is one of the most useful, (yet misunderstood,) models in your mental toolbox to solve problems more quickly and efficiently. Occam’s razor can be summarized as follows:

Among competing hypotheses, the one with the fewest assumptions should be selected.

We’ve heard winning isn’t everything, but new research proves that “losing” might boost your success in the long run.

The whole idea is that instead of using a resume, you are looking at people’s cognitive, social, and emotional aptitudes, … It’s also much more future-facing and potential-oriented, rather than backwards-facing and sort of only talking about your past experiences. It’s a much more holistic, hopeful view of someone than, Oh, this is what you’ve done, and this is all you can do.”