Fatigue, loss of focus and clarity, lack of imagination, low motivation for activity beyond the bare necessities — these symptoms of stress may also be clues to low level depression. “Low-level Depression” actually describes the ‘blahs’ … in more elegant words. It may not be severe enough to trigger warnings of depression that we would […]
This error in thinking credits fate with the so-called ‘facts’ that our culture, beliefs, countries. and people simply are as they have always been – and they will always be this way. This instinct kills our power. It can cause us to believe our false generalizations and seductive ‘gaps’ are not only true – but […]
The size instinct directs our attention and resources toward concrete things that are in plain sight and, when considered without context, may easily be misjudged in terms of their importance. Remember the high-school math we wondered if we would ever use? Well, ‘ratio and proportion’ to the rescue! We need to be able to compare […]
How busy are our brains? The Neuro Imaging Lab at U.S.C. reported that we have up to 70,000 thoughts per day, or 48.6 thoughts per minute. That’s a lot of action! We can process only a fraction of the information that bombards us daily. The rest is filtered out. I wonder … What part did […]
As a committed optimist, I choose to look for positives. That’s my preferred mindset. I’ve been exploring common patterns of thought that can lead us astray. The more we know – the better we can recognize if we fall prey to one of these patterns. This one is titled ‘Straight Line’ thinking – which proposes […]
