American Physician Institute for Advanced Professional Studies
Guaranteed Unhappiness
An extremely effective (and common) way to guarantee one’s unhappiness is to live in a state of self-imposed chronic deprivation. [...]
Happiness: Cognitive Diffusion
Today I discuss ways of viewing the content of our minds in a way that allows greater stress tolerance and, [...]
Easy Way to Like Yourself More
A lot of our suffering is self-induced and occurs from our perception of personal shortcomings. It’s easy to be disappointed [...]
Structures of Unhappiness
Think of a time during which you felt unhappy for a sustained period of time, be it a day, week, [...]
From No Action to Small Action
A universal frustration among clinicians is how “resistant to change” our patients are. It often feels that “nothing I say [...]
Physician Burnout Versus Control
Physicians are at high risk of burnout. Here are some of the aspects that place us at risk: The long [...]