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empathy

How Fiction Trains Your Heart for Real Life

Fiction is a rehearsal space for empathy, training judgment, softening certainty, and turning stories into compassionate action with simple, repeatable habits.

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empathy

How Fiction Trains Your Heart for Real Life

Fiction is a rehearsal space for empathy, training judgment, softening certainty, and turning stories into compassionate action with simple, repeatable habits.

Misagh Zad
Misagh Zad
110
8m
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critical thinking

The Case for Human Agency in the Age of AI

AI is accelerating everything, but human agency decides what’s built, how fast we move, and what values we keep. Here’s a clear, practical case for turning power into wisdom.

Reza Zad
Reza Zad
103
8m
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imagination

A Practical Guide to Imagination Above the Line

A field guide to climbing Plato’s Line in the AI era, use imagination with constraints, story, empathy, and critical thinking so shadows turn into models, tests, and understanding.

Reza Zad
Reza Zad
113
12m
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empathy

The Quiet Risk, Green Dashboards, Red Days

AI brings speed, but speed without human meaning and critical thinking turns green dashboards into red days. Pair AI with empathy and rigor so output becomes outcome.

Reza Zad
Reza Zad
159
10m
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empathy

The Quiet Joy of Missing Out

ROMO, the Relief of Missing Out, is clarity over noise: a practice of attention, boundaries, and critical thinking that swaps comparison for focus and envy for ease.

Misagh Zad
Misagh Zad
146
8m
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storytelling

Storytelling Is One of the Core Human Skills We Need

Storytelling isn’t a soft skill, it’s the oldest human technology for meaning, connection, and change. Learn why stories heal, how they shape identity, and why mastering them matters now.

Misagh Zad
Misagh Zad
116
9m
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empathy

Understanding Without Surrender

Empathy isn’t surrender, it’s the courage to understand without losing your center. Learn tools like deep listening, the Fair-Summary Test, and healthy boundaries to practice empathy with conviction.

Misagh Zad
Misagh Zad
112
10m
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critical thinking

A Field Guide to Critical Thinking

A compact operating rhythm for clear judgment under pressure: calm the mind, frame reality, take small reversible steps, read the signal, repeat.

Reza Zad
Reza Zad
101
9m
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critical thinking

Why We Exist

There’s a question I’ve been asking myself a lot lately. Doesn’t it feel harder than ever to think for yourself?

Misagh Zad
Misagh Zad
130
8m