Human behavior
How we think and feel
Human behavior
To neglect any one of the three marriages is to impoverish them all, because they are not actually separate commitments but different expressions of the way each individual belongs to the world.
David Whyte • The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship
Because the brain mediates our experience of the world, any neurosurgical problem forces a patient and family, ideally with a doctor as a guide, to answer this question: What makes life meaningful enough to go on living?
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
“Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.”
Lori Gottlieb • Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."-Frederick Douglass
Vince Allen
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty w he t he r in a similar situation he might not have done t he same.
Viktor E. Frankl
No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty w he t he r in a similar situation he might not have done t he same.
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cannot find yourself by going into the past. You find yourself by coming into the present.
Eckhart Tolle • The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
Behavioral addiction consists of six ingredients: compelling goals that are just beyond reach; irresistible and unpredictable positive feedback; a sense of incremental progress and improvement; tasks that become slowly more difficult over time; unresolved tensions that demand resolution; and strong social connections.
Adam Alter • Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked
Fake news isn’t meant to change minds. As we know, beliefs are hard to change. The potency of fake news is that it entrenches beliefs its intended audience already has, and then amplifies them.