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I agree it isn't straightforward. Some things can lead to benefits, without themselves being beneficial. In psychology, diagnosis is sometimes like that. It can lead to treatment, …

By saying why bother, I meant to discourage diagnosis, while acknowledging its benefits and costs.

I agree that knowing about something, and accepting it, is better than the alternative. Does that mean we need to diagnose it as a disorder? For instance, I have an introverted per…

It sounds like the diagnosis marked a point of positive transformation. Before the diagnosis, your daughter attributed her math challenges to global stupidity and laziness. After t…

Why bother? Given the breadth of diagnostic classes these days, there's a good chance you can find a practitioner[0] willing to make a diagnosis. That said, aside from getting fund…

Your suggestion of housing density with retail and shops fits the description of my current neighborhood. I love it so much that I changed careers to find ways to support more of t…

Thanks for the thorough analysis. In British Columbia, and specifically where I live, much of our electricity comes from hydro electric, we have suitable pathways-with-boulevards f…

Nice initiative. Particularly for civilians doing daily activities, biking and walking seem like the best forms of transportation. They enhance personal happiness, increase communi…

Good. If we want cleaner air and quieter cities, we have several alternatives to gasoline cars. I imagine a graph of CO₂ production goes a bit like this: Walk - Bike - Train ------…

Unlike those in public high school, students who aren't serious about medical school won't have earned the entrance grades. So at least in first year, most students will have a ser…

One way to have skin in the game is to pay a considerable sum of money to join medical school. This reminds me of the Commitment and Consistency chapter in Cialdini's book Influenc…

I like this because it encourages affluent people to adopt electric vehicles. If we want to live in cities with clean air, quiet streets, and fewer gasoline stations, then it makes…

I find this useful on myself and with others. It gives an approach when someone (or my own mind) says, "None of this is my fault, so I shouldn't have to change." From the article: …

That doesn't sound fair to me either. The subset of people who have benefitted from polluting won't have to foot the clean-up bill. So those who want lush, temperate, and healthy s…

I feel convinced to participate in climate change in my work. I don't know whether we can reverse it or whether tech will solve it, but I do believe in its importance, and I want t…

Thanks for the comment. It looks like we mostly agree. > The purpose of the "disorder" is to group common pathologies and their respective treatments (methods to improve). So nice …

The video argues that yes, greater awareness has happened, and also, we have widened our pathological categories to include normal functioning. First we invented autism (etc), then…

From the video description: > Once upon a time there was a field called Personality Psychology, which concerned itself with normal-range individual differences between people, as d…

These are the books and resources that have been of the most use to me: # Assertiveness: Alberti, R. E., & Emmons, M. (1995). Your Perfect Right. San Luis Obispo, California: Impac…