Recency Bias

With World Mental Health day on Oct 10th, I happened to listen to some really interesting episodes on depression and loneliness. The Simplify podcast (from Blinkist) talks with Johann Hari about his book Lost Connections ( book review ) I found a copy of this book and am starting on it now. Ezra Klein talks with Vivek Murthy the former Surgeon General of US about the epidemic of loneliness and what it means. https://megaphone.link/VMP6662924991 Emotions are not biologically hardwired into our brains but constructed by our minds. Superstar psychologist Lisa Barrett Feldman helps you rethink emotional reactions and how we need to sometimes dig deeper. I firmly believe that no one is a villain in their own story. We all have biases or perspectives that impact what we say and do. Luckily we're not bound by it, we can break through bad patterns or lenses. I think we can help others as well, but like everything worth doing - it takes work. The level of divisiveness we currentl...

watch : Patriot Act (netflix) with a great piece heading into the Canadian election called - The Two Sides of Canada. They took a hard look at the liberal's aspirational progressive talk with it's SNC-Lavalin stan-ing. They mentioned the ethics violation but not the whisper campaign against JWR.  They also called  him on his Paris targets while nationalizing a pipeline. #itsTheEconomyStupid. I consistently like this show but this hit close to home and timely with the election looming. Sadly regardless of this behaviour Jagmeet Singh of the NDP continues to struggle. The party fundraising and nomination process hasn't been great.  Jagmeet has handled himself admirably faced with a number of racially charged incidents. The NDP's adoption of the Green New Deal demonstrates their understanding of the serious nature. The status quo cannot continue. The see no evil, hear no evil approach to climate change and inequality need to change.  We have spent 30+ years trying the...