People are very complex. And for a psychologist, you get fascinated by the complexity of human beings, and that is what I have lived with, you know, in my career all of my life, is the complexity of human beings.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
People are complex. I'm just showing my complexity.
I thought psychologists were people who rob, figuratively of course, money from the insecure. But they are not. They are people who are there to help you, and if you find a good psychologist, they will allow you to talk about everything and open up, without the slightest of fears, and that is no easy thing.
Psychology is much bigger than just medicine, or fixing unhealthy things. It's about education, work, marriage - it's even about sports. What I want to do is see psychologists working to help people build strengths in all these domains.
Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.
I think what we do is fairly unique on 'Psych,' and we just have to keep doing that because that's what got us where we are.
Psychology is a big part of sport that some people do not realise. But it is a skill you have to practice.
I've always considered myself more of a mathematician than a psychologist.
In Psychology we deal with minds and their processes, and leave out of account as far as possible the objects that we get to know by means of them.
Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.
Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves.