Human Thinking
What are the Placebo and Nocebo Effects?
The placebo effect has a long history, and has real power over an individuals mental and physical health compared with medication, and the nocebo effect is its harmful “negative twin.
Human Thinking
How Collective Societal Fear creates Toxic Social Norms
Collective fear often shapes what a society is willing to see, name, and change, and that fear can quietly produce toxic “normal” ways of living.
Human Thinking
What is a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy?
A self-fulfilling prophecy is a belief or expectation that helps bring about the very outcome it predicts, because it subtly changes behavior in ways that make the outcome more likely.
What is a Paradox?
What is a Paradox?
A paradox is a situation or statement that seems to contradict itself, but still has some truth in it. Most truths end in paradox.
Does Making Make Meaning?
What is it to be Human?
Being human is messy, beautiful, painful, confusing, and deeply meaningful, and all at the same time. It means having a body that gets tired and breaks, a mind that thinks and worries, and a heart that feels joy, fear, love, shame, and everything in between