Cole Bitting distills life lessons from the science of our complex human nature.
Peer-reviewed articles about neuroscience and psychology are insightful but their conclusions are technical and shroud in jargon. Each study makes a small point with technical force.
Cole draws insight from the wide sweep of these individual studies. He writes essays and fables to demonstrate valuable life practices and enliven our intuitive sense of psychology. He focuses on the topics of personal development, recovery from emotional distress and nurturing well-being.
As infants we understand how objects move, bounce and break. The movie Toy Story details the physical life of familiar objects, and young kids joyously revel as each new movement confirms their intuitive sense of physics.
Later in life, we study the movement of physical objects, and by high school, the subject becomes the incomprehensible science of physics. It would be like studying the computer code for Toy Story’s cartoon physics rather than watching the film.
Just as we have an innate sense of intuitive physics, we also have an innate sense of intuitive psychology. Kids love Toy Story because they understand each character and identify with the hidden essence which creates each character’s personality.
Like physics, when we study the complexity of human nature we lose our intuitive reference and natural curiosity. The more technical the knowledge and the deeper it delves into human nature, the less we understand. Psychologists and neuroscientists end up studying “human nature” computer code.
We try to make use of these lessons by turning the computer code into prescriptions - Seven Easy Steps To:
- Improve Your Self Esteem and Achieve Your Grandest Life Ambitions
- Save Your Marriage and Live Happily Ever After
- Understanding Cosmic Nature and Living In Rapture
When we mechanically follow lists, we turn ourselves into automated machinery. We get angry when we don’t do as we tell ourselves. We abandon our innate intuitive psychology, our natural abilities to heal and grow, and the joyous revelry of life.
We need to recognize the complexity of human nature and the equal complex quality of the related science. Cole distills this technical knowledge into intuitive lessons so it makes sense and we can learn.