Tag: cognitive biases

• The Power of Attention: Shaping Our Thoughts

  

  Somewhere along the line in my grown-up life, I developed a sense of hopelessness about humans. But I’ve realised I’m caught in a negativity bias, and that good and wonderful things abound, if only I’m mindful to attend to them.

  Sharlene Zeederberg

  November 18, 2024

  Anxiety, Getting Older, Life Lessons, Mindfulness

  cognitive biases, consciousness, hope, Life Lessons, mental-health, Mindfulness, philosophy, spirituality

• A snapshot in time

  

  Cleaning up, I found an old picture. A snapshot in time, unposed and unfiltered, framed in white edging now a little tattered and torn. In it, I’m about 3 or 4 years old, I think, which means the photo was taken about 45 years ago. Almost half a century. That’s a conception of time that…

  Sharlene Zeederberg

  December 7, 2021

  Getting Older

  cognitive biases, Family, Life Lessons, meaning, middle-age