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The User's Guide to the Human Mind: Why Our Brains Make Us Unhappy, Anxious, and Neurotic and What We Can Do about It QUOTES

The User's Guide to the Human Mind: Why Our Brains Make Us Unhappy, Anxious, and Neurotic and What We Can Do about It QUOTES

1 " Accepting the mind is sometimes the most useful strategy. When the mind believes that safety or survival is at stake, it won’t be outmaneuvered. But that doesn’t mean we need to suffer. In a tug-of-war against an immovable force, it makes sense to drop the rope. We’ll be discussing how to do that. "

― Shawn T. Smith , The User's Guide to the Human Mind: Why Our Brains Make Us Unhappy, Anxious, and Neurotic and What We Can Do about It

2 " They can mislead us and can even cause pain, but their quirky behavior, to borrow from computer programming parlance, is almost always a feature of the software, not a bug in the program. However abnormal your mind may seem to you, it is probably functioning as it should. "

― Shawn T. Smith , The User's Guide to the Human Mind: Why Our Brains Make Us Unhappy, Anxious, and Neurotic and What We Can Do about It