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10/23/2026

Have you ever been sure of something while everyone around you said you were crazy?

Ignaz Semmelweis was. He showed that handwashing saved the lives of mothers giving birth. But the leading doctors refused to listen, because accepting it meant admitting they had been the ones spreading the disease. So they called him a lunatic.

Years later, his "invisible particles" were identified as bacteria. He had been right all along.

When evidence threatens what we believe, or who we think we are, pride doesn't weigh the facts. It defends. That's fear, disguised as certainty. Sometimes the one everyone calls crazy is the one who sees the truth.

Courage is letting the truth win. What belief deserves a second look?

More on this in Fear Is a Liar. Link in bio.

Most of us think change needs a big overhaul. Usually it comes down to one or two small habits, repeated so often we sto...
10/21/2026

Most of us think change needs a big overhaul. Usually it comes down to one or two small habits, repeated so often we stop noticing them.

For me, it was eating again before my blood sugar had come back down. A small thing, but done over and over, it added up.

Change works the same way in reverse: one different choice, repeated until it feels familiar.

What's one habit you could start changing this week?

New essay, "It's the Habit," is on my Substack. Link in bio.

10/20/2026

In the 1940s, a doctor told a little girl in Tennessee that she would never walk again.

Polio had paralyzed her left leg. She wore a metal brace. Every week, her mother took her by bus to Nashville for treatment, and at home her family massaged her leg, day after day.

That girl was Wilma Rudolph. In Rome in 1960, she won three Olympic gold medals, the first American woman to do it at a single Games.

She later put it this way: "My doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother."

As a physician, I respect a diagnosis. But a prognosis is not a prophecy. And the most dangerous verdicts usually don't come from a doctor. They come from inside your own head. Your Automatic Brain says "You can't" and "It's too late," and it says them with total authority. That's fear talking. And fear is a liar.

Which voice are you choosing to believe today?

Photo: Joop van Bilsen / Anefo, Nationaal Archief (CC0)

Most of us think we get fooled because the other person was convincing. Sometimes that’s true. But they usually had help...
10/14/2026

Most of us think we get fooled because the other person was convincing. Sometimes that’s true. But they usually had help. They told us what we already wanted to hear.

The better a story fits our hopes, the less closely we look at the person telling it.

So before you ask whether someone is being straight with you, ask yourself a harder question. What am I hoping is true right now?

Read the full post (link in comments) 👇

10/09/2026

Ever butt heads with a boss… or avoid them completely?

Your Automatic Brain is built to fight or flee the unknown. If someone at work reminds you of a person from your past, your brain can treat them like a threat, even when they aren't one. And sometimes that "flight" shows up as procrastination or perfectionism.

Does this sound familiar? Tell me below 👇

One of my favorite stories comes from Joe Hyams's Zen in the Martial Arts. A karate student asks his Sensei how long it ...
10/07/2026

One of my favorite stories comes from Joe Hyams's Zen in the Martial Arts. A karate student asks his Sensei how long it will take to master the art. Ten years. He promises to train harder. Twenty years. Harder still. Thirty.

When he asks why, the Sensei says, "If you have one eye on your goal, you only have one eye on the path in which to find the way."

When the goal feels too big, fear takes our eyes off the next step. Start with one.

Read more below 👇

"Medicine's a funny business. After all, dispensing chemicals is considered mainstream and diet and nutrition is conside...
09/30/2026

"Medicine's a funny business. After all, dispensing chemicals is considered mainstream and diet and nutrition is considered alternative."

I wrote that years ago, and I still find the distinction strange.

A prescription gets accepted with little explanation. Mention a change in diet or a supplement, and suddenly the doctor wants proof.

That doesn't mean "natural" is better. Some supplements are useless, and some can be harmful. Prescription medications save lives. But nothing should be dismissed just because it falls outside what we've come to call mainstream medicine.

Ask questions. Look at the evidence. Pay attention to your own results. And make sure your doctor is willing to do the same.

Fear shapes both sides of the exam room. I explain how in my book, Fear Is a Liar. Link in the comments. 👇

We don't get to control every thought that shows up. But we do get to decide whether it deserves our trust. That small p...
09/23/2026

We don't get to control every thought that shows up. But we do get to decide whether it deserves our trust. That small pause, between a thought and a belief, is where the real choice lives.

Trust isn't a guarantee that things will work out the way we want. It's the strength to keep choosing courage, humility,...
09/16/2026

Trust isn't a guarantee that things will work out the way we want. It's the strength to keep choosing courage, humility, and integrity anyway.

Fear Is a Liar goes much deeper into what happens when fear demands certainty, and how the Mind can choose differently.

Start reading. Link in comments 👇

"The best way to expose our ignorance is to hold on to biased ideas and opinions, because we fear giving the upper hand ...
09/09/2026

"The best way to expose our ignorance is to hold on to biased ideas and opinions, because we fear giving the upper hand to the other side." 🧠

Most of us like to think our opinions are built on evidence. Too often, they're built on not wanting to be the one who loses the argument.

Once we've picked a side, admitting the other side has a point doesn't feel like intellectual honesty. It feels like losing. So instead of updating what we believe, we hold on tighter, whether or not it still holds up.

The Mind can tolerate being wrong. The AB can't, and it will fight hard to keep us from ever finding out.

This week's post digs into why, and how it connects to Sunday's essay on tribalism. Link in the comments below. 👇

Genuine question: when's the last time someone actually changed your mind about something? What made it happen?

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