The Importance of Introspection

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I think the first thing can be a lot more shallow often because I don't know whether it's culture or just human nature. A lot of the times before we can really get to the heart of things, things sound different from how they really are. And so kind of peeling that back so we can actually just get a bunch of the stuff that's actually driving the behavior to be out in the open is 90% of what I need to do to solve these things typically.

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What is the Internal Family Systems model? What kinds of information do our emotions give us? How many agents live in our heads? And, if there's more than one, how well do those agents cooperate? What is operant conditioning? What is attachment theory? How does parenting differ from animal training? Is decision theory able to unify many different psychological theories?

Divia Eden has always been interested in understanding how minds work, and she currently spends most of her time unschooling her three kids. You can find out more about her at becomingeden.com or follow her on Twitter at @diviacaroline.

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