Tag: psychology
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Brilliant lecture on depression
It’s a scary thought that obesity by 2020 will be the number 1 disease that affects the western world. What is even more surprising is depression will be number 2 by 2020. Professor Robert Sapolsky has an excellent lecture on the effects of depression and how is it a real biological disease like diabetes.…
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Quote
Every day – your job, the government, your addiction, your depression, your money – you feel like you can’t control the forces affecting your fate. So, you stage microrevolts. You customize your ringtone, you paint your room, you collect stamps. You choose. Choices, even small ones, can hold back the crushing weight of helplessness, but…
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Triangle
Pretty much spot on.
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Depression
“You are constantly told in depression that your judgment is compromised, but a part of depression is that it touches cognition. That you are having a breakdown does not mean that your life isn’t a mess. If there are issues you have successfully skirted or avoided for years, they come cropping back up and stare…
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The Dunning-Kruger Effect
Lately I’ve been reading on cognitive bias due to further research into “intuition”. I came across a recent study called “The Dunning Kruger Effect” The Dunning Kruger Effect is described as overconfidence in unskilled people of their abilities to perform above and beyond what they can do. This allows incompetent people rate their skills much…