I enjoy testing friendship. Everything in life to me is a psychological game, a series of challenges you either meet or don’t. I am always testing people who work for me.
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Emotional abuse in a relationship takes time to build. It’s slow and methodical and incessant, much like a dripping kitchen faucet.
There’s zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.
Just think it, and chances are it will happen.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
A lot more people are saying they’re spiritual but not religious — but what does that really mean? I would say sports and movement are the most oft way we access a spiritual experience and transcend our ego, but they’re the least discussed and least understood.
Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into the ship and it will sink. Just so with the human mind. Let enough negative thoughts or improper thoughts get into the human mind and the person s…
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.
We produce destructive people by the way we are treating them in childhood.
Many people believe that memory works like a recording device. You just record the information, then you call it up and play it back when you want to answer questions or identify images. But decades of work in psychology has shown that this just isn’t true. Our memories are constructive. They’re rec…
You don’t have to change the world or find your one true purpose to lead a meaningful life. A good life is a life of goodness — and that’s something anyone can aspire to, no matter their dreams or circumstances.
Most young adults won’t achieve the idealistic goals they’ve set for themselves. They won’t become the next Mark Zuckerberg. They won’t have obituaries that run in newspapers like this one. But that doesn’t mean their lives will lack significance and worth. We all have a circle of people whose lives…
A self is a repertoire of behavior appropriate to a given set of contingencies.
The truth is that monsters are real, and ghosts are real, too. They live inside us, and sometimes they win.
Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
We are not born feeling inadequate. Life experiences and emotions create that sense within us in a variety of creative ways. For example, when we were little and we felt afraid or anxious, our mind told us something was wrong with us, not with our environment. That's why children who were abused or…
Some of our recent work has focused on how to change the mind of a psychopath. In 2015, together with John Curtin and Joseph Newman at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, we developed a computerised training package aimed at helping psychopaths attend to information outside their immediate goals. F…
And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation.
People do not come into therapy to change their past but their future.