257: Don't Be Manipulated

We can spend a lot of time worrying about our homes, about fires, floods etc. But the most common difficulties that we will have to surmount will come from our fellow humans.

This week's reading: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moral_letters_to_Lucilius/Letter_103#:~:text=Try%2C%20in%20your%20dealings%20with,and%20what%20you%20should%20withhold.

New Yorker article:

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/frontal-cortex/why-smart-people-are-stupid?source=search_google_dsa_paid&gclid;=EAIaIQobChMI3uDRlsjU8gIVY21vBB1hkw_rEAAYASAAEgIUo_D_BwE