How can two people, using the same facts, arrive at different decisions? Because you can't always believe what you think, says Len Williamson. Cognitive-based interventions, however, can help us achieve better outcomes David Bohm¹ argues that our thoughts are a reflex just like the knee jerk that follows the doctor's rubber hammer. External stimulus is the hammer, our senses the knee and the thought we have, the reflex. Libet² presents evidence to show that our conscious thoughts are a post-event rationalisation of what occurred, with the decision...