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Artigos da categoria “Livros e Poesia

Uma Espécie

Publicado em 24/01/2025

— Talvez também viesses a gostar de mim aos poucos — disse-me. — Mas não vale a pena falar disso agora. Falar faz doer ainda mais. Acabou. Vês, estou aqui perto de ti, mas não encontro mais nada para te dizer. Gostava de fazer alguma coisa por ti, para te ajudar, mas ao mesmo tempo tenho uma espécie de vontade de me ir embora e de não ouvir mais falar de ti.

—Natalia Ginzburg, O Caminho da Cidade, Relógio D’Água 2024 (1942)

Sour Grapes

Publicado em 16/01/2025

In Aesop’s fables from ancient Greece, the storyteller coined the term sour grapes to depict the opinion change of a fox who realized that he could not reach grapes that he wanted. After experiencing frustation, the fox solved his cognitive dissonance by convincing himself that the grapes must be sour and that in fact he was never interested in them.

—Dan Ariely, Misbelief, Harper Collins 2023

Felt

Publicado em 06/01/2025

One day, Kipling Williams, a social scientist, was walking his dog in the park. As he was strolling along, a Frisbee fell at his feet. He picked it up and tossed back to one of the guys who’d been playing with it. Grinning, the guy tossed it back to him, and Williams found himself in the middle of an impromptu triangle toss. Back and forth they went a few times, but then the two friends who had been playing together before he stumble across their path stopped throwing the Frisbee to him and went back to throwing it to each other. Williams felt bereft and excluded.

—Dan Ariely, Misbelief, Harper Collins 2023