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. <br />This week's reading: <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moral_letters_to_Lucilius/Letter_103#" rel="noopener">https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moral_letters_to_Lucilius/Letter_103#</a>:~:text=Try%2C%20in%20your%20dealings%20with,and%20what%20you%20should%20withhold.<br />New Yorker article:<br /><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/tech/frontal-cortex/why-smart-people-are-stupid?source=search_google_dsa_paid&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI3uDRlsjU8gIVY21vBB1hkw_rEAAYASAAEgIUo_D_BwE" rel="noopener">https://www.newyorker.com/tech/frontal-cortex/why-smart-people-are-stupid?source=search_google_dsa_paid&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI3uDRlsjU8gIVY21vBB1hkw_rEAAYASAAEgIUo_D_BwE</a>