Must We Sacrifice Our Super-powers in the Pursuit of Stability?
This is the sixth post dealing with how our ability to think and process information relates to mood. The first four posts focussed on all the things that commonly go wrong that we need to know. Last week, in Making our Amazing but Problematic Brains Work for Us, we explored the very opposite, namely our high-performance software that often leaves the rest of the world for dead.
In response to last week’s post, Katya referred...
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