Sublime

Adams, William Lee. “The dark side of creativity: Depression + anxiety x madness = genius?” CNN. 2014.

psychology is biological but cannot be reduced to biochemistry or neurobiology without losing what is important.

In the arena of self-knowledge, psychotherapy may be the single most useful intervention of the last 200 years. It is a tool and, like all tools, it finds its purpose in helping us to overcome an inborn weakness and to extend our capacities beyond those originally gifted to us by nature.

Mastering motivation is building the capacity to do what matters most to you, even when a part of you does not feel like it.

Therapy builds on the idea of a return to live feelings. It’s only when we’re properly in touch with our feelings that we can correct them with the help of our more mature faculties – and thereby address the real troubles of our adult lives.

Why you do what you do. The one person you most need the approval of is you. When the way we are living is out of line with our values and what matters most, life stops feeling meaningful or satisfying.

makes work authentic is the deeply individual fit between the nature of our role and our own aptitudes and sources of pleasure.