Category: Doctor’s Thoughts

In the 1960s in a small village in France, there was a group of teenage boys who would run around the town together. They would

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,

A common truism is that life isn’t about having all the answers but rather about asking the right questions. Maybe we should take this as

I’ll admit I have a lot of mixed thoughts about using the New Year as an occasion to make change. On the one hand, I’m

A couple weeks ago, I wrote about key virtues– what are the most important virtues we carry. I’d like to focus on one virtue today: