Ideologies are simple ideas, disguised as science or philosophy, that purport to explain the complexity of the world and offer remedies that will perfect it.
12 Rules for Life
Jordan B. Peterson, Norman Doidge (Forward), Ethan Van Sciver (Illustrator)
See yourself acting, feeling, “being,” as you want to be. Do not say to yourself, “I am going to act this way tomorrow.” Just say to yourself: “I am going to imagine myself acting this way now—for thirty minutes today.” Imagine how you would feel if you were already the sort of personality you want to be.
Psycho-Cybernetics
Maxwell Maltz
Such language disguises the plain fact that sex is defined functionally based on the type of gamete (sex cell) that forms the basis for an individual’s reproductive anatomy. Males comprise the sex that produces small, motile sex cells (sperm); while females comprise the sex that produces large, sessile sex cells (ova). It doesn’t matter whether any individual can actually, or eventually does, produce gametes. An individual human being’s sex is determined by their primary sex organs, and an individual’s sex is accurately recorded over 99.98 percent of the time using genitals as a proxy for underlying gonad type.
When we get “butterflies” in the stomach before a job interview, or when we get hungry before a late lunch, that is our “second brain” talking to our first brain. So, in other words, this suggests that the idea of “mental health” being separate to our physical self is as outdated as Descartes’ dodgy wig.
Notes on a Nervous Planet
Matt Haig
the key to the matter of whether you are disturbed or tranquil, fearful or composed, is not the external stimulus, whatever it may be, but your own response and reaction.
Psycho-Cybernetics
Maxwell Maltz