Borderline Quote by Barbara Oakley

“Welcome to the psychiatric hotline: if you are obsessive compulsive press one repeatedly. If you are schizophrenic listen closely and a little voice will tell you which number to press. If you have borderline personality disorder hang up; you have already pushed everybody's buttons.”

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“Habit is an energy saver for us. It allows us to free our mind for other types of activities.”

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Psychopaths know intellectually what is immoral they just don't have a feeling of immorality about it.

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“Interleaving means practice by doing a mixture of different kinds of problems requiring different strategies.”

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“The key is to do something else until your brain is consciously free of any thought of the problem.”

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“Attempting to recall the material you are trying to learn—retrieval practice—is far more effective than simply rereading the material.”

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