G's are used to explore your thoughts and feelings more closely. This allows you to discover non-functional patterns and behaviors. The latter is a behavior that does not pay off in the long term. Take FOXP2, an important gene for speech motor skills that humans have but is also found in songbirds. If I deactivate this gene in the songbird, it will no longer be able to learn its parents' song. Vocal learning is therefore a genetic element that occurred earlier in evolution. But overall, a full head. You sometimes feel like you are going completely “crazy” about yourself. Your thoughts continue, you worry a lot and you sleep poorly. And your head is so full it feels like there's nothing there. Tips for learning to think differently: For anyone who is plagued by gloom, uncertainty, fear, or other limitations. I bring up the subject of recasting episodes. This first part focuses on cognitive therapy's view of thinking. I am describing the “starter kit” or G model. Obsessive thoughts arise from fear. Unwanted “ordinary” thoughts can of course also be very annoying. One reader wrote in a letter to this magazine: “I look at our adorable pet and suddenly think: I could easily kill him right now. How sad that would make us.