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The Possibility of Cognitive Kindness

Our minds are among our most valuable individual and collective resources, and yet we often don’t treat them that way. Karen Yu offers cognitive kindness as a way forward, inviting us to consider how we might be more cognitively kind in all that we do and design, and why it matters.

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This talk was presented to a local audience at TEDxUniversityoftheSouth, an independent event.

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Our minds are among our most valuable individual and collective resources, and yet we often don’t treat them that way. Karen Yu offers cognitive kindness as a way forward, inviting us to consider how we might be more cognitively kind in all that we do and design, and why it matters.

This talk was presented to a local audience at TEDxUniversityoftheSouth, an independent event.

Read more about TEDx.

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