Doc's Thoughts

I often say that we are all instant-gratification pleasure-seeking pain-avoiding monkeys. Our nervous systems have evolved to seek pleasure and to avoid pain. In the

There was once a traveler who came upon a large construction site, filled with stone masons. Everywhere he looked, he saw people laboring away. The

I recently finished a great biography of Benjamin Franklin– he was a remarkable man, with a fantastic optimism in America. He embodied (and was one

When I talk to patients about making changes, people will often tell me things are still the same because “I’m lazy.” While there are certainly

Yoda famously said, “The greatest teacher, failure is.” When we deprive ourselves of failure, we deprive ourselves of the most powerful lessons life offers us. And yet,