Christine

“If you imagine complex, challenging possibilities, your brain will adapt to them. Much like a tiger trapped in a zoo exhibits repetitive displacement behavior, if you cage your imagination within the bars of the dull and neurotic, which often portray one’s fears more than they do an empirical “truth,” then your brain will adapt to these imagined meanings, too. Like the sad tiger pacing back and forth within its puny cage, your brain too will ruminate cyclically upon destructive meanings, and in doing so make them more significant than they might need to be. This present perceptual meaning becomes part of your future history of meanings, together with the meaning (and re-meanings) of past events, thus shaping your future perception. If you don’t want to let received contexts limit possibility, then you need to walk in the darkest forest of all—the one in your own skull—and face down the fear of ideas that challenge.”
― Beau Lotto, Deviate: 'A more accessible THINKING FAST AND SLOW' Wired

“confirmation bias is the tendency to give more weight to evidence that confirms our beliefs than to evidence that challenges them.”
― Kathryn Schulz, Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error

“We don't yet know, above all, what the world might be like if children were to grow up without being subjected to humiliation, if parents would respect them and take them seriously as people.”
― Alice Miller

“It is not about living idyllically in our
similarities, but about living peacefully and pleasurably in
our differences.”
― Kathryn Schulz, Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error