“The map is not the territory.” -Afred Korzybski Humans love to oversimplify reality because it makes it infinitely easier to understand. Because we specialize in metaphor-making, we tend to mistake our stories about reality for actual reality, and we’re rarely...
“Myths can become law when they’re repeated often enough.” -Anthony William How many times in your life have you heard the idea that mental illnesses like depression are caused by a ‘chemical imbalance’? Most of us have heard the phrase repeated hundreds if not...