The Psychology of Peace

2. The habit of explaining behavior—often generously for us, harshly for them.
5. The strength that chooses the long route because it actually arrives.
6. The mental swivel that lets you see the same scene from another angle.
7. The quiet tilt in judgment that favors familiar paths over unfamiliar facts.
9. The craft of making a relationship functional after strain.
12. The set of stories about who you are and which team you play for.
14. The skill that lets your mind sit in someone else’s chair without stealing their shoes.
15. The permission slip you give yourself to update without shame.
16. The body’s rev-meter that rises with threat and settles with safety.
18. The appraisal—accurate or not—that recruits your body for battle.
19. The decision to stop letting yesterday spend tomorrow’s budget.

1. The way calm voices and predictable routines lower the room’s pulse.
3. The calibrated response that convinces the future to trust the system.
4. The storyline that stitches events into meaning, for good or ill.
5. The social ledger entry where favors and fairness balance.
8. The rule that prevents telepathy from being a job requirement.
10. The mental rerun that keeps a grievance on autoplay long past its ratings.
11. The cognitive trick where you rewrite a hot take into a cooler story.
13. The non-negotiable floor beneath disagreement.
17. The compound asset that grows by kept promises and shrinks by excuses.