Thought of the day from the father of American psychology, William James: “The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook”
What follows is a piece of reading and reflection, not guidance. We are writers, not psychologists or clinicians, and the studies mentioned here describe patterns across groups of people, not rules…
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