Confirmation Bias

Confirmation Bias

Our brains have evolved to crave information consistent with what we already believe. We seek out and focus on facts and arguments that support our beliefs. More worrisome, when we are trapped in confirmation bias, we may not consciously perceive facts that challenge us, that are inconsistent with what we have already concluded.  In a complicated, changing, and integrated world, our confirmation bias makes us very difficult people. We simply can't change our minds.

(James Comey, A Higher Loyalty, (large print) p. 179-180)

Dick Henthorn

5 Nov 2019

Stuff

Stuff

Our obsession with stuff carries a hefty price tag.

(Max Lucado, Grace For The Moment, Vol. II, 15 Sep)

Dick Henthorn

4 Nov 2019

Life Is Stressful

Life Is Stressful

Life is stressful. How we respond - mentally, emotionally, spiritually - affects our bodies.

(Perry Tilleraas, The Color of Light, 2 October)

Dick Henthorn

3 Nov 2019

Lying

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.

Thomas Jefferson

Dick Henthorn
1 Nov 2019

David Mallett - How Much More

David Mallett asks the question - How Much More





Dick Henthorn
29 Oct 2019

Obsessive State

Obsessive State

The fact that in the obsessive state we overlook "realistic" aspects of the object of desire and focus on sheer delight suggests that the loving eye sees something to which the cold eye of reality is blind.

(Thomas Moore - Soul Mates, p. 220)

Dick Henthorn

28 Oct 2019

Letters

Letters

... letters offer an unusually fertile means for revealing one's deepest thoughts and feelings, articulating them with a degree of style and precision that conversation may not be able to achieve.

(Thomas Moore - Soul Mates, p. 221-2)

Dick Henthorn

27 Oct 2019