How to Stop Overthinking: 8 Tips From a Therapist

s instant respect, awe and admiration for ideas, people, places and things, and apparently conjectures. In the 15th-18th centuries it was Latinization that did the trick. Just give something a Latin name and voila, you have t he imprimatur of the gods of antiquity.

Classical education did involve learning Greek and Latin, so educated peopl e could be expected to read both.

Learning mathematics does seem to be more useful, and if you can express wh at you want to say in mathematical terms it can be easier for other people to test.

Pseudo-mathematical formulations are less useful, but Fred Bloggs seems to have lost the capacity to distinguish between real and imitation mathematic s, and seems to have decided that anything he can't follow is fraudulent - as opposed to demanding.

The first person most people lie to is themselves.

Then, their circle of peers.

John Larkin does make a habit of it. Some people can be trained out of it, but egomaniacs need their flattery, and most of them have to rely on themselves to deliver their maintenance dose.

If you need flattery, you tend to hang around with people who will supply it, and that usually means flattering them enough to keep them willing to flatter you.

Cursitor Doom seems to rely on sources that will feed his need for right-wing conspiracy theories, and he flatters them by taking them seriously.

They aren't typical.

Mr. Larkin seems to have learned a couple skills in life, electronics design and gas-lighting. In his defense that's one skill more than the average white American of retirement age tends to have, but as the saying goes "don't quit your day job."

If you're opposed to gay marriage, you can just say "No" when a gay person asks you to marry them.

Please stay tuned for many more time-saving left-libertarian life hacks. That'll be $135.