Frontiers Friday #14: Five Tips for Your Development
Frontiers of Psychotherapist Development
Frontiers Friday #13 Dispatch
This week, one new blog, why pre-prints are useful and 2 more on our mistaken beliefs about Personality.
New from My Desk: Adjustable Seats
If you design something to fit an average person, you end up designing something that fits no one.
Web-Read: A Lesson of the Pandemic: All Prints Should Be Preprints
I hope there is generally more open access to research to all and not just academics. Also, I previously wrote about how the scientific process might be misunderstood and my hopes about access/transparency to research: "Is the Scientific Paper a Fraud?"
Web-Video: Brian Little: Who are you, really? The puzzle of personality
Book-Worm: Who Are You Really? by Brian Little
This short book turns our conventional wisdom of personality on its head. Watch the video by Brian Little and/or read his book. Little talks about the value of setting up "personal projects" that I find a usefu notion with my clients.
Words Worth Contemplating:
“A good deal is said these days about being oneself. . . . This strikes me as a very dull way of living; in fact, I would be inclined to argue that all of us would be better off if we set out to be something other than what we are. Well, I’m not so sure we would all be better off— perhaps it would be more accurate to say life would be a lot more interesting.”
~ George Kelly, 1964, as cited in Who Are You Really?