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Anxiety Isn’t a Chemical Imbalance (Not Always)
In our modern hustle culture, people run around in acute anxiety, of course. There can be no doubt about that. I see within the masses that there are very few people who really understand anxiety. Holding onto anxiety runs into other problems. They exist with the ego and the onslaught of an overload of fear,…
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Newsletter: An Oldie But Goodie Writing Process
I’ve learned several ways to go about the writing process, but I’ve settled on one that I’ve found most very successful authors and writers seem to embrace. My action precedes my mood. I don’t wait for the right feeling to start. I use three bolded words…
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Warning: You’re Losing Money by Not Using Your Memory
I remember my first memory course. I was working at United Airlines as a mechanic on the jets at the Oakland Maintenance Center. In the fall of 1995 I saw an infomercial on television about a memory course promising results that were impossible for me to believe.
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Newsletter: Modern Loneliness Isn’t a Contact Deficit
You can text fifty people a day and still feel invisible if none of them actually depend on you for anything real. Old communities were built on survival ties.
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Ruminating: How to Stop Constantly Replaying Thoughts
You replay the same argument in your head for the tenth time. You analyze a mistake from three years ago. You imagine every possible way tomorrow could go wrong. Your brain isn’t broken when it does this.
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Could Being Shy As a Child Be an Indicator of a Low Quality Life?
Shyness may contribute when a goal requires being seen, pitching an idea, selling, dating, publishing, applying, performing, or asking. This is definitely true for me when it comes to public speaking. These episodes of procrastination and stalled goals have many possible routes, and this is what all of us in this arena need to internalize.
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The Thought Loop Isn’t a Willpower Problem
It’s 2am. You’ve replayed the same conversation nine times. You know the loop is pointless, you knew it was pointless six replays ago, and yet here you are, running it again, waiting for a different ending that always never arrives. Somewhere along the way, you were handed a diagnosis for this but it was wrong.
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Stuck on Repeat: How to Break the Thought Loop Running Your Life
Nobody tells you this about the human mind: it doesn’t really think most of the time. It repeats. And most of us are running the same three or four loops on autopilot, convinced the whole time that we’re making decisions.
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Why Rejection Feels Like Physical Pain (And What You Can Do About It)
For some people, rejection actually triggers the same parts of the brain that light up when you’re in physical pain. Wild, right? This isn’t about being too sensitive or dramatic. It’s a real thing called rejection sensitivity, and understanding it might just change how you see yourself and your relationships.