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#1 When I opened my private practice as a psychologist, I was deluded about what I would be doing. I was expecting to cure my patients, but instead I had to learn how to be flexible as new information trickled in weekly.
#2 It's difficult to treat a patient who isn't psychologically oriented. Laura just wanted her herpes cured and, in her mind, therapy was a means to...
2) Summary of Steven Kotler's The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: “The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance” (2014) is a psychology and self-help book about realizing our true potential through the power of flow—a state of consciousness characterized by total immersion in an activity. American author Steven Kotler explains how flow has enabled extreme athletes to push the boundaries of human potential....
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Get the Summary of Robert Greene's Mastery in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Mastery" by Robert Greene explores the journey to achieving mastery in one's field, emphasizing the importance of following one's natural inclinations and the Life's Task. Leonardo da Vinci's relentless pursuit of art and science, driven by curiosity and an inner force, serves as a prime example of mastery. Greene argues that careers...
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#1 The mind of every therapist I've ever known is full of unhelpful thoughts. And the mind of every person who struggles with anxiety, depression, or addiction. We start from the assumption that the normal psychological processes of a normal human mind readily become destructive, and that the root of this suffering is human language itself.
#2 The mind is not a thing or an object....
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#1 The creation of writing was a massive technological breakthrough that empowered us to disseminate important texts to millions of people. This allowed mass education and mass collaboration on a scale never before seen in human history.
#2 The internet changed all that. It made it easy to share information on a massive scale, and this has resulted in an absolute explosion...
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Book Preview: #1 The first nine mental models in this book are about how the world works. They are representations of how something works, and they help you understand and think about your world. They are essential to making rational decisions, even when there is no clear path.
#2 To see a problem for what it is, you must first break it down into its substantive parts. This bottom-up...
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Book Preview: #1 The path to healing is a long one, and it involves the emotional discovery of your childhood history. If you choose instead to content yourself with intellectual wisdom, you will remain in the sphere of illusion and self-deception.
#2 The repression of childhood pain influences not only the life of an individual but also the society's taboos. The typical run of biographies...
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#1 Taking in a few experiences each day of being included, appreciated, or cared about felt like tossing a few buckets of water into the pool. Day after day, bucket after bucket, month after month, I was gradually filling that hole in my heart.
#2 Inner strengths are your supplies as you make your way down the twisting and often hard road of life. They include a positive...
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Book Preview: #1 The study of psychological trauma is to come face to face with human vulnerability in the natural world, and with the capacity for evil in human nature. To study psychological trauma means to bear witness to horrible events, and when the events are of human design, those who bear witness are caught in the conflict between victim and perpetrator.
#2 The study of psychological...
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#1 At the highest level, we have a person who has spent countless hours training in a specific skill. While education is necessary, no one is a surgeon without having conducted thousands of hours of practice and repetition.
#2 The Dunning-Kruger Effect is a cognitive bias in which people with low ability at a task overestimate their ability. It is related to the cognitive...
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#1 You should be able to: Navigate uncertain situations.-> You should be able to navigate uncertain situations. Your skills aren't as important as your attributes. What matters more are your attributes.
#2 Our attributes, which are wired into our internal circuitry, drive our behavior. They are largely invisible and often taken for granted. But they are extremely important....
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#1 The kleśa of being a personality, or individuality, is the result of the urge to divide and discriminate. It is a natural instinctive form in which libido first appears out of the unconscious. According to tantric teaching, there is an urge to produce a personality, something that is centered and divided from other beings.
#2 The instinct of individuation is found everywhere in...
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#1 Thelma was in love with her therapist, and she told me so in the first session. She handed me two old photos of a young beautiful dancer and a 60-year-old stolid woman. Thelma had not tended to her appearance in years.
#2 I had difficulty imagining the shabby old woman having an affair with her therapist, but I kept my opinions to myself. Thelma raved about her therapist,...
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#1 The narcissist both appeals and appalls. He may look like a modern-day Sir Lancelot, replete with the most swaggering charm, but he is also a master of illusion. His arrogance, condescension, and lack of empathy lead to frustrating interpersonal encounters and chronically difficult long-term relationships.
#2 The majority of narcissists are male, so I'll primarily...
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Book Preview: #1 We are often the last people to know what is going on inside us. We suffer because there is no easy way to introspection. We are not a fixed destination, but an eternally mobile, unfocused, and vaporous specter.
#2 Emotional skepticism is the recognition that our own minds can be faulty and misleading. It is the first step towards emotional maturity, which involves...
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#1 We learn by repetition. Something we do enough times gets its own neuronal pathways in the brain. Each neuron learns to connect and fire with the next one down, and the behavior gets set. We wouldn't be able to enjoy movies without this process.
#2 We are the only machine that can program itself. We are meta-programmable and can set deliberately designed, automated...
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#1 I have to get dressed. I take out a jumper and a white shirt, and from the dresser I get white socks and white underwear and a white undershirt, and I get my favorite saddle shoes. I suit up completely. I must be very quiet or my parents will hear.
#2 I would pace up and down the hall, getting more and more anxious until I wiggled free and began to run around the...
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#1 The similarities between Western psychotherapy and Eastern ways of life are that they both focus on changing the consciousness of individuals, and that the normal state of consciousness in our culture is the breeding ground of mental disease.
#2 The idea of stuff is based on the experience of coming to a limit where our senses or instruments are not fine enough to...
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#1 The human mind is made up of a tapestry of genetics, biology, and relationships that allow us to be interwoven into the superorganisms we call families, tribes, and cultures. Our deep evolutionary history accounts for the profound connections among our bodies, minds, and the nature and quality of our relationships.
#2 Our brains have multiple parallel tracks...
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#1 Bipolar disorder is a mood disorder that affects at least one in every 50 people. It puts them at high risk for the problems in their family, social, and work lives. With medications, psychotherapy, and self-management techniques, it is possible to control the rapid shifts in mood from manic highs to severe depressive lows.
#2 The inpatient experience can...
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