I think the part where patients in hospital who are receiving high doses of diamorphine for pain relief and yet do not become addicted because perhaps they do not perceive them self as an addict is a core question to the whole question of addiction
The Thinking Therapy Blog
I think the part where patients in hospital who are receiving high doses of diamorphine for pain relief and yet do not become addicted because perhaps they do not perceive them self as an addict is a core question to the whole question of addiction
Very good listening
How about this beautiful phrase from Brene Brown "the courage to be imperfect", blows me away
And
This little quote by Ann Lamott resonates with me "Perfection is shallow, unreal and fatally uninteresting"
The human brain is capable of 1016 processes per second, which makes it far more powerful than any computer currently in existence. But that doesn't mean our brains don't have major limitations. The lowly calculator can do math thousands of times better than we can, and our memories are often less than useless — plus, we're subject to cognitive biases, those annoying glitches in our thinking that cause us to make questionable decisions and reach erroneous conclusions. Here are a dozen of the most common and pernicious cognitive biases that you need to know about.