This points to the truth that the world view we operate from affects everything from how we feel to how well we process information to how we behave.

The mode we tend to live from, hostile or friendly, survive or thrive, is a reflection of which brain circuits have been most consistently recruited over a person's live, starting in childhood. Childr

This rant via Shalom Auslander

I was thinking about sex the other day because I was having a really depressing day, and a dead body had been found by the pier, and as I was taking my son to school and waiting at a traffic light, a homeless man in a mad fury began circling my car, shouting and spitting, and it felt like forever before the light turne

The antidote to envy is one's own work. Always one's own work. Not the thinking about it. Not the assessing of it. But the doing of it… [T]he work itself. It drives the spooks away.

-Bonnie Friedman

Building meaning is what makes us happy.

- Katherine Morgan Schafler