Posts tagged with "August2025"
'You are afraid of surrender because you don’t want to lose control. But you never had control; all you had was anxiety’. Those words from author Elizabeth Gilbert will strike a chord with anyone who strives to control the big and small details of daily life. My latest column explores how attempting to control everything keeps us on edge. Checking, overthinking, over-planning, rehearsing – what we think of as being in control is often just anxiety wearing a convincing mask.
“I knew it would happen!” But did you really? Hindsight bias is the tendency to see past events as more predictable than they really were. Our brains prefer tidy, coherent stories over messy, uncertain realities. My latest column explores hindsight bias, and how it can have significant mental health implications.