Daily Stuff

Chinese:

I watched episode 35 of Travel in Chinese. This episode dealt with language related to buying antiques.

Article:

I read an article in the Wall Street Journal about the development of the brain and the fact that it's been found that that parts of the human brain that control decision-making and impulse control and things like that don't fully develop until we hit late-20s. So, it's completely normal for people in their early 20s to be unsure of what they want to do in life. It's also been found that anxiety and depression and mental disorders like schizophrenia are also likely to manifest in this time frame. This definitely seems to be a problem among people in my age group and it would explain why my anxiety seems to have gotten worse in the past few years.

Philosophy:

I read about William James's philosophy of religion on Wikipedia. He believed that religious experiences and not religious institutions were what should be the main topic of religious study. He also believed that our experiences, religious or otherwise, and especially very intense ones, were windows into the human mind. He believed psychologists should be focusing on these experiences in order to study the human mind.