Everything Is F*cked

their definition of normal; above average, even. His CAT scans looked fine. His IQ was still high. His reason ...

consider that it was Elliot’s capacity for emotion that had been damaged. And even if they had real ...

morph into a raging dumpster fire? Why did he essentially abandon his family knowing full well the negative ...

Egas Moniz believed that the lobotomy, once perfected, could cure all mental illness, and he mar ...

and that it had to learn to control those desires.^10 Kant sort of said the same thing.^11 Freud, too ...

we are. Because if we can’t achieve our goals, if we can’t lose the weight or get the promotion or lear ...

Each Other Let’s pretend your mind is a car. Let’s call it the “Consciousness Car.” Your Consciousness ...

Meanwhile, Tom Waits was pretty much all Feeling Brain all the time, and he got paid copious amounts of money ...

Emotional problems are irrational, meaning they cannot be reasoned with. And this brings us to even worse ...

that your partner is an asshole and you’ve done nothing wrong, your Thinking Brain’s immediate reaction wil ...

and fucking and partying. Others drive toward power. These are the most dangerous Clown Cars, as ...

square.^22 People were sadistic, impulsive fuckers. For most of history, the world has not be ...

and selfish, warping reality to conform to his whims and fancies, which are then never satiated. His crisis ...

careers?” or “How do you feel about selling everything and moving to Tahiti?” The Feeling Brain won ...

Remember: feelings never last. That’s why you start small. Just put on your gym shoes today, Feeling Brain. ...

But here’s what you do have, Thinking Brain. You may not have self- control, but you do have meaning contro ...

observations. Similarly, the Feeling Brain makes value judgments based on those same facts, data, and obser ...

Chapter 3 Newton’s Laws of Emotion The first time Isaac Newton got hit in the face, he was standing in a f ...

absentminded. He lacked social skills. He was into nerdy shit like sundials, Cartesian planes, and determinin ...

control the natural world, the shapes and configurations of the sun and moon and stars, then it should also be ab ...