Pandemic Survival Guide – Approach

If the Ugly Shoe Fits

Morgan Stobbe — Fri, 07 May 2021 15:09:18 +0000

The maladaptive benefit of confirmation bias is that it becomes entrenched with our beliefs about ourselves and the world, we start to feel better about ourselves. We then surround ourselves with like-minded individuals with like-minded opinions. Confirmation bias helps us to connect feeling good, with our beliefs. We think we are right because we feel right.

Everyone Else Needs to Learn How to Drive

Morgan Stobbe — Wed, 28 Apr 2021 20:28:04 +0000

When we are young, we learn various ways to deal with the events and emotions that bring us the most distress. Whatever works, usually sticks. Sometimes we even bring in other emotions as secondary defenders to push those other, more distressing emotions, aside. Anger is often the most effective at this – it can smother nearly anything, and it does so efficiently and effectively.