stackyFACTSYou can pay a brilliant professional hundreds of dollars an hour for the most objectively perfect life advice on earth, but your stubborn brain will violently reject every word of it unless they bypass your epistemic vigilance.
You can pay a brilliant professional hundreds of dollars an hour for the most objectively perfect life advice on earth, but your stubborn brain will violently reject every word of it unless they bypass your epistemic vigilance. Peter Fonagy's research highlights that we inherently distrust new information. A therapist only successfully changes your mind by first making you feel deeply understood, a psychological lock-picking technique required to finally establish epistemic trust.
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