What if the limits of attention are not a handicap but the very structure that makes meaning, creativity, and character possible? We pull on that thread and follow it from the mechanics of concept formation to the deep role of the subconscious as your energy-saving, integration-carrying partner. We start with the bottleneck: awareness has scope. Because you can’t hold everything at once, you compress experience into concepts that travel light yet stay precise. Then we move to the subconsciou...
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What if the limits of attention are not a handicap but the very structure that makes meaning, creativity, and character possible? We pull on that thread and follow it from the mechanics of concept formation to the deep role of the subconscious as your energy-saving, integration-carrying partner. We start with the bottleneck: awareness has scope. Because you can’t hold everything at once, you compress experience into concepts that travel light yet stay precise. Then we move to the subconsciou...
Why Psychology Needs A Positive Definition Of Normal
The One in the Many
19 minutes
1 week ago
Why Psychology Needs A Positive Definition Of Normal
Forget the bland idea that “normal” means not sick. We set a higher bar and a clearer standard, arguing that mental health is the living rhythm between what you perceive, what you think, and what you do. Starting with the senses as your anchor to reality, we trace how the mind integrates fragments into concepts and then into guiding ideals, before returning those ideals to shape concrete action. Along the way, we show how medicine, biology, and physics define order positively, and why psychol...
The One in the Many
What if the limits of attention are not a handicap but the very structure that makes meaning, creativity, and character possible? We pull on that thread and follow it from the mechanics of concept formation to the deep role of the subconscious as your energy-saving, integration-carrying partner. We start with the bottleneck: awareness has scope. Because you can’t hold everything at once, you compress experience into concepts that travel light yet stay precise. Then we move to the subconsciou...
