Originally asked
Vox, to writers and thinkers, 9 Questions, 2017
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Sean Illing, Vox, “9 questions” series, 15 April 2017 source ↗
Wasting time reading blogs, magazines, newspapers. They have their place but they can become an addiction. And the real ways to gain understanding about issues are reading books and traveling.
My worst intellectual habit has to be overanalyzing everything. I do it all the time, because there are too many options in this world.
Impatience. My mind moves rapidly.
I’ll get half way through a book and then jump to another.
I believe that I had something called epigenetic imprinting, which I actually read about in a book called The Female Brain by Louann Brizendine. Not to self-promote too much, but I loved it so much I wrote a movie with a brilliant comedian named Neil Brennan and made the move this year. That’s how profoundly it changed my life, because I believe that the more we know about our neural brain wiring, the more freedom we have and the more patience we have with ourselves.
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