psychology

If you really want to cultivate your passion and purpose, you’re always going to need a way to pay for that passion and purpose. But don’t expect this to happen quickly, and find stopgap measures in the interim. I was a bartender for the first decade of my writing career,

Self-discipline is not self-deprivation. It is about raising your standards, going for and being more.

In other situations, perhaps when a good relationship is already in place, the goal of reducing uncertainty may be a priority.

Just because something feels good doesn’t mean it is good. Just because something feels bad doesn’t mean it is bad. Emotions are merely signposts, suggestions that our neurobiology gives us, not commandments.

Put differently, it’s like our brains initially see the world as a true/false exam where the default answer is always true.

Meditation is nothing more than the quiet distance that you need for integrative, imaginative, observant, and mindful thought.

The speed at which things are adapting is accelerating. Everyone can feel this, but not everyone is able to put their finger on HOW they should respond to it. The pitfall I see is that many old-school thinkers are ignoring the speed at which things are changing with the excuse of “this time isn’t different.” On the other side of the spectrum, you

The modern emphasis on multitasking plays into our natural tendencies quite well, often in frustrating ways. Every new input, every new demand that we place on our attention is like a possible predator: Oooh, says the brain. Maybe I should pay attention to that instead.

At first glance, it appears the crucial difference between the two requests was the additional information provided by the words because I’m in a rush. However, a third type of request showed this was not the case. It seems it was not the whole series of words but the first one, because, that made the difference.