How the brain works to prevent change
Our brains exercise an evolutionary pressure against changing our minds and opening our thinking by favouring the safety of our current worldview.
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The unlovable is love looking for itself
We think of certain behaviours as functional and of others as dysfunctional, constructive vs destructive, adaptive vs maladaptive. Generally we consider attitudes and actions that help us move closer to happiness, peace, abundance as good.
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Common cognitive biases series (part 3)
Our brains are prone to cognitive biases—systematic errors in thinking, which largely occur because we’re trying to process information quickly. These erroneous patterns of thinking are predictable and we’re all affected by them.
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Common cognitive biases series (part 2)
Cognitive biases serve a useful evolutionary purpose: they help us process and react to sensory inputs and information quickly, they protect us from experiencing unpleasant feelings, and they enable us to respond to incoming threats.
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For better results ask better questions
The results we get are a feature of the questions we ask. If we want different results we need to ask different questions.
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Common cognitive biases series (part 1)
Familiarity with common cognitive biases can help us make better decisions and improve the quality of our work and thinking.
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What success really depends on
Why do we stick with some commitments but break others and how to build habits that we sustain for the long-run.
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Can I be with this?
To harbour a feeling that is too overwhelming we can either shrink the feeling or bust the illusion that we’re not expansive enough to contain it.
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Choosing the past
The real benefit of learning from painful past experiences is not in learning to prevent them but in understanding why they cause pain.
Choose rather than should
When you do things because you “choose” to rather than because you “should” you create a completely different experience for yourself.
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