Commonplace Book/tags/psychology/Recent content on Commonplace BookHugo -- gohugo.ioen-USWed, 22 Jul 2026 12:13:00 +0000Healthy Mind Platter/posts/3b-healthy-mind-platter/Wed, 22 Jul 2026 12:13:00 +0000/posts/3b-healthy-mind-platter/<p>A healthy mind functions much in the same way that a healthy lifestyle does. There are many contributing factors that make up a healthy mind just like there are many contributing factors to a healthy lifestyle. Daniel Siegel and David Rock point to these 7 aspects that make up a healthy mind: Sleep Time, Focus Time, Play Time, Connecting Time, Physical Time, Time in, and Down Time.<sup id="fnref:1"><a href="#fn:1" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">1</a></sup></p> <div class="footnotes" role="doc-endnotes"> <hr> <ol> <li id="fn:1"> <p><a href="https://drdansiegel.com/healthy-mind-platter/">https://drdansiegel.com/healthy-mind-platter/</a>&#160;<a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-backref" role="doc-backlink">&#x21a9;&#xfe0e;</a></p> </li> </ol> </div>A healthy mind functions much in the same way that a healthy lifestyle does. There are many contributing factors that make up a healthy mind just like there are many contributing factors to a healthy lifestyle. Daniel Siegel and David Rock point to these 7 aspects that make up a healthy mind: Sleep Time, Focus Time, Play Time, Connecting Time, Physical Time, Time in, and Down Time.1

  1. https://drdansiegel.com/healthy-mind-platter/ ↩︎

]]>Feeling and Thinking Brains/posts/3a-feeling-and-thinking-brains/Fri, 30 May 2025 18:43:00 +0000/posts/3a-feeling-and-thinking-brains/<p>The brain can be thought of as having two parts. The thinking brain is the part of the brain responsible for generating maps. It&rsquo;s logical. The feeling brain is the part of the brain responsible for generating emotions. It&rsquo;s intuitive.<sup id="fnref:1"><a href="#fn:1" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">1</a></sup></p> <div class="footnotes" role="doc-endnotes"> <hr> <ol> <li id="fn:1"> <p>This concept is taken from the book &ldquo;Everything is F*cked: A Book About Hope&rdquo; by Mark Manson, which discusses the dual nature of the human mind and how it influences our behavior and decision-making.&#160;<a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-backref" role="doc-backlink">&#x21a9;&#xfe0e;</a></p>The brain can be thought of as having two parts. The thinking brain is the part of the brain responsible for generating maps. It’s logical. The feeling brain is the part of the brain responsible for generating emotions. It’s intuitive.1

  1. This concept is taken from the book “Everything is F*cked: A Book About Hope” by Mark Manson, which discusses the dual nature of the human mind and how it influences our behavior and decision-making. ↩︎

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