Changing tastes allow for progression

Experts say watching true crime is a way of comforting yourself that something terrible could never happen to you. "I would never be that naive to marry a man who's been living a double life as a serial killer."

But this is also how we get to blame the victim. We ...

1. You can always change. You're the only person who gets to decide who you become.
2. Change your habits, not your goals.
3. Take comfort in the idea that we live in a society where we love seeing people changing for the better.
4. It's never too late to change. As long as y...

How did it work? It was pretty simple: people just swapped things. It worked fine, except if you didn’t have something your neighbor needed. Once people figured out you could exchange universally valued objects for goods, everything changed.

From there, we’ve gone from all...