In his book “White Bears and Other Unwanted Thoughts”, Daniel Wenger discusses perhaps one of the most annoying, yet fascinating aspects of the human brain:  you cannot dwell on the reverse of an idea.  The simple illustration is one most of us have heard of – “don’t think about a polar bear”.  Immediately, what [...]

Recently I started reading “Get Out of Your Own Way”, by Dr. Robert K. Cooper.  While discussing some fascinating aspects of how the human brain operates, Cooper states the following:
“The writer Walker Percy once said that a tragedy of our modern life is that everything is interesting but nothing becomes deeply important.  One of [...]