On Facebook, I had a fan make this request:
Doctor Matt, I need your help. I really want to invent a time machine to retroactively abort people in the past that are too stupid in the present.
Signed, Andy M____
Now, the topic raised by this fan is a complicated one for many people, so I did my best to give a complete answer. I said this:
I know the feeling, Mr. M___. The primary problem with your goal, as I understand it, is the difficulty of warping space-time. Now, while there may have …

Folks, I make it a habit to respond to as many fans as I can, because I wouldn’t be where I am today without their money.
Sometimes, fans leave their responses to one of my books on the Amazon.com, and I do my best to let them know they’re heard and they appreciate the feedback, even if what I had to say didn’t appeal to them in that particular moment.
However, one fan took offense to me responding to reviews, and had this to say to me:

I actually find it distasteful when …

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“The next time we meet, we are going to change your life forever.”
That was what I had said to Brian the last time I’d met with him, and here he was again, sitting on my couch. Normally, I don’t think much about just what the heck I say to anyone, but since I’d been on a sabbatical, Brian was the only client I’d seen. So Brian kept getting stuck in my head like that alien worm in that “Star Trek: Khan” movie.
Now, when Brian had told me that he was …

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Brian sat in my office for about 10 minutes while I thought about what to say to him. You see, I had decided to fix Brian. And, so far, Brian was not an easy person to fix.
When Brian came into my office over two months ago, it seemed like he had a fairly simple problem. Everything in his life seemed to be going exactly right, yet he wasn’t feeling happy. This was perplexing, for sure, because whenever things are going right for me, I’m completely happy. For instance, I’ve been …

Editor’s note: A Long Island Phi Phi is named for Phi Phi Island in Thailand and is pronounced pea-pea.
Y’all, I was sitting at home enjoying a Long Island Iced Phi Phi and watching Anderson Cooper, as this is one of my sabbatical rituals. I highly recommend grabbing ahold of a Phi Phi while watching Anderson; the two just seem to feel great together for some reason. Maybe that’s just the influence of Thailand.
Anyway, suddenly on AC360, a video was shown of a North Carolina Baptist pastor who preached this:
“Build a great, big, …

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Ellen DeGeneres!
I know you’ve been waiting for the right time to invite me, Dr. Matt, onto your show. After all, you don’t want to have me on too early, and upstage an upcoming actor like Tom Hanks, but you also don’t want to wait too long, and jeopardize your career. So, I’m here to help, by telling you that the time to have me on your show is right now.
That’s right. Before you know it, you could be sitting down with the most famous doctor in the world without an …

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Folks, I don’t put much stock in all that hogwash about 2012 being some sort of Apocalyptic year. But, I’m also an advocate of being prepared. So, just in case the world ends in 2012, here are 10 things you should probably do as soon as possible.
#10 – Stop being an idiot
Look, I don’t care if it’s robots or zombies that might take over, the bottom line is that idiots are the first to die either way. So, it’s time to start becoming aware of your surroundings and getting a sense of …

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I know what you’re thinking. That whole Occupy Whatever movement has come and gone. While some may argue that’s true, it’s also why I bring this up now. Because after you’ve been out changing the world, it’s time to come inside and Occupy Your Bedroom.

You see, there’s always going to be something to be upset about, something to protest about, and something to yell about. But unless you occupy that bedroom, there may not always be someone there to talk to after you’ve been pepper-sprayed by some dickhead cop, or …

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Not long ago, The Hollywood Reporter, which is some kind of online smut magazine, published a story with this headline: “Brad Pitt Uses ‘Moneyball’ Promotional Tour to Criticize Jennifer Aniston“.
About his former marriage to Jennifer Aniston, Brad Pitt had said this: “I started to get sick of myself sitting on a couch, holding a joint, hiding out. It started feeling pathetic. It became very clear to me that I was intent on trying to find a movie about an interesting life, but I wasn’t living an interesting life myself. I …

The talented David Wisehart recently featured me on his website.  David Wisehart is a writer, director, producer, and, apparently, celebrity interviewer.
Go here:
http://kindle-author.blogspot.com/2011/08/kindle-author-interview-dr-matt.html