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Most of us have unhealthy thoughts and emotions that have either developed as a result of trauma or hardships in their childhood, or the way they were raised.

We're naturally programmed to endure a muddle of emotions as we leave childhood behind.

Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are.

The truth is, bad things don't affect us as profoundly as we expect them to. That's true of good things, too. We adapt very quickly to either.

In fact, in more cases than not, when we are rational, we're actually unhappy. Emotion is good; passion is good. Being into what we're into, provided that it's a healthy pursuit, it's a good thing.

We accept there's an emotional aspect to life. But we're not very developed in our ways of understanding it.

When things begin to go bad, the perception of people makes it worse.

We are naturally moral beings, but our environments can enhance - or, sadly, degrade - this innate moral sense.

Sometimes our childhood experiences are emotionally intense, which can create strong mental models. These experiences and our assumptions about them are then reinforced in our memory and can continue to drive our behavior as adults.

There is the natural tendency that all of us are vulnerable to, to deny unpleasant realities and to look for any excuse to push them away and resolve to think about them another day long in the future.