Each of us is full of inconsistencies and inconstancies. Looking back at our own lives, each of us would not see uniformity but diversity and multiplicity. The philosopher Montaigne (1533-1592) notes, ...

"Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things." - Isaac Newton Looking at the conflicting US macro data from PPI (-0.5% Mom when consensus was 0.1%), to ...

“In these times I don’t, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don’t want what I know and want what I don’t know.” — Marsilio Ficino, 1460 We usually associate anger with intolerance of ...

Do you often find yourself in "analysis paralysis"? It is a state where you’ve thoroughly evaluated every detail, know all the possible outcomes, but still can’t seem to decide. Ambivalence is the ...

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