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Category: Doctor’s Thoughts

Structure Sets Us free

We often think of freedom and structure as opposing forces, with freedom representing spontaneity, choice, and the absence of rules, and structure representing rigid schedules

Health Emerges From Joy

We often feel tension between the things that bring us happiness and what we believe makes us healthy, assuming these two aims are at odds.

What Do You Want?

What do you want for… your kids? For your partner? Your family? Yourself? It is interesting to me how we often do not think through

Women talk while going for a bike ride.

Health as an Emergent Property

I will often get asked What is the most important thing I should do for my health? It’s an excellent, well meaning question, and a highly reasonable

Are We Living in Good Times?

When we look back at our life, our recollection of events often differs significantly from our perception of them in the moment. Memory is fluid,

Fantasy and Reality

We all have fantasies– and they can be great. In our fantasies, we are not bound by the constraints of time, resources, societal expectations, or

Happiness Is an Inside job

Our culture and society can often feel obsessed with finding happiness. We are told to cultivate joy, and just be happy. We spend time making

Unique or Universal?

There is tremendous variation in us humans: how we live, what we think about, why we do things, who we care for, what we look

Joy in Sorrow

I recently went to a memorial for a member of our family. It was a sorrowful event, as memorials are. However, it also caused me

A man walks in a park.

Your Future Self

I recently got back from a trip. Before I left, I had put a few blocks in my schedule, so that on my return, I