Talk with your friends, sure, but if you want to increase your enjoyment of the Internet and life in general, steer clear of debating politics with strangers.

It's far too easy to make negative assumptions about a stranger's character or motivation.

Women's magazines may give so-called health advice, but they still carry ads from cigarette companies that depict smoking as a glamorous exercise for beautiful people.

Given what we know about the harms of smoking,

• that it is one of the worst things you can do for your health,
•  it prematurely ages your skin and body,
• it promotes many terrible illnesses
• and makes you less attractive,

it completely undermines all the other so-called health "advice" in these magazines.

1. Frank’s research convinced him that the specific theoretical framework of a given therapy has little to do with its effectiveness.
2. The most important factor is the therapist’s ability to induce the placebo effect, by convincing patients that they will improve.
3. Many patients respond to therapists and therapies with scientific status, Frank noted, but others might prefer a faith healer, witchdoctor or shaman to a Harvard-trained psychiatrist.
4. Frank spelled out this perspective in his influential 1961 book Persuasion" target="_blank" class="inline-link">https://findings.org.uk/do... and Healing: A Comparative Study of Psychotherapy.