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The mayor of a small Italian village said visitors who only stay long enough to take a photo before leaving contribute nothing except the litter they leave behind, in a village whose entire modern economy exists because a photo of its church ended up on a SIM - Silicon CanalsSilicon Canals · Sat, 08 Aug 2026 09:24:20 GMTPsychology says pushing your chair back in when you leave a table speaks volumes about your character, because it's a habit built entirely on consideration for a stranger you'll never meet and will never thank you - Silicon CanalsSilicon Canals · Sat, 08 Aug 2026 08:40:19 GMTResearchers paired strangers and asked them to skip the small talk, and the conversations were less awkward, more enjoyable, and more connecting than either person predicted — suggesting the barrier to being known is often not other people’s disinterest b - Silicon CanalsSilicon Canals · Sat, 08 Aug 2026 07:30:00 GMTThe self-improvement industry sells becoming your best self through grit and mindset, but the large meta-analyses are deflating: grit turns out to be mostly conscientiousness renamed, and growth-mindset programmes move academic results only slightly - Silicon CanalsSilicon Canals · Sat, 08 Aug 2026 06:01:57 GMTMost advice on becoming happier assumes it is up to you, but the evidence is humbler: much of the variation is dispositional, the claim that 40 per cent sits within your control does not hold up, and what works best points outward, towards other people - Silicon CanalsSilicon Canals · Fri, 07 Aug 2026 23:41:11 GMTBeing self-absorbed is usually heard as an insult, but decades of psychology suggest it is closer to the mind's default: we sit at the centre of our own perception, overestimate how much others notice us, and struggle to see the bias in ourselves - Silicon CanalsSilicon Canals · Fri, 07 Aug 2026 23:25:12 GMTThe people who rise fastest in most organisations are rarely the most competent, they are simply the most confident, and decades of research suggests we are almost incapable of telling the two apart. - Silicon CanalsSilicon Canals · Fri, 07 Aug 2026 22:30:32 GMTAn elderly man in London lost his wife and then his son, and didn't know what to do with the grief, so he started running. Eleven years later, at 100, he crossed the finish line of a full marathon in just over eight hours. - Silicon CanalsSilicon Canals · Fri, 07 Aug 2026 08:45:03 GMT