The Addictive Trap Detector

The Trap Detector is a brief self-test you can take on your device.  Your responses will identify the mechanism that maintains your particular trap and provide links to tools that will enable you to extricate yourself.  [This material is available free of charge]. 

Know Thyself!

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.    —  Aristotle Bad things happen, and some suffering is unavoidable. But you can create additional suffering for yourself and others by …

The Karma of Behaving Badly

Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.  —   Elbert Hubbard Performance becomes easier with practice. In fact, with enough practice, performance can become autonomous—that is, it requires …

The Imp of the Perverse

God’s error was forbidding the apple. If He would have forbidden the serpent, then Adam would have eaten the serpent. –George Bernard Shaw People often end up doing exactly what …

The PIG

No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object. — Sidonie Colette The Problem of Immediate Gratification (the PIG) is our name for the principle that immediate …

Recursive Traps

  "It is often possible to discern a structure to people’s difficulties, in which internal states and external events continually create the conditions for the recurrence of each other."  — Paul …