Book "Surgery, The Ultimate Placebo": evaluation of commonly performed surgical operations that have been tested and shown to be no more effective (and arguably worse) than placebo, or that have never even been tested. It covers the history of sham surgery studies, talks about placebo effects, and explains why so many surgeons ignore the evidence and continue to do ineffective operations. Source
Published on Dec 19, 2020
Human needs are finite and classifiable. There are 9 fundamental human needs that are constant across time periods and cultures.
Published on Dec 19, 2020
Getting bored is our mind's way of saying it finds the current activity as low value.
Published on Dec 18, 2020
Before we store an event in our memory, it goes thru many filters. So the final memory is very different from the actual event. The filters are...
Published on Dec 18, 2020
Tendency for Interpersonal Victimhood (TIV): "an ongoing feeling that the self is a victim". It involves 4 dimensions...
Published on Dec 18, 2020
Map is a simplified representation of the reality(territory) in someone's mind. People generally confuse map for territory - but Map is not the territory.
Published on Dec 18, 2020
Re-framing is considering an negative issue from many different aspects to find a positive
Published on Dec 18, 2020
A goal is a recognizable, desired state in the future, that causes you to act differently in the present in order to realize it. It is...
Published on Dec 17, 2020