Brain Nazis and Feeling Good by David D. Burns, M.D.

Have You Got a Brain Nazi? If you’re conscious, you’re monitoring your environment. You have to. It’s how you survive. This is not something you can turn off. It’s just one of those systems that runs automatically, like your liver. You’re always appraising the situation. And as soon as you encounter something that’s likely to

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“The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination” by J.K. Rowling

This is J. K. Rowling’s 2008 Harvard commencement speech, “The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination.” It’s one of the best speeches I’ve ever heard. Watch and then watch again. Read the full text here. Two quotes that in no way can do justice to the whole thing. And so rock bottom

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How to Write a Story that Rocks

Folks, a huge thanks goes to Stephen Nelson for putting all this together. You may kiss his hand when you see him. This is a recording of “How to Write a Story that Rocks,” a two-hour seminar Larry Correia and I just put on at the annual BYU’s Life, The Universe, & Everything symposium. I think we

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