Month: January 2018

DAVID TAYLOR ~ HOW TO BE SUCCESSFUL BY BEING YOURSELF ~ 2016

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~ NM-Y-B/E/H/D/F-EYNTAAYWIYL-YAHWY ~ No Matter – Your – Background / Education / Hopes / Dreams / Fears – Everything You Need To Achieve Anything You Want In Your Life – You Already Have Within You

~ YDHTSLIOTRHTL ~ You Don’t Have To Stop Living In Order To Rediscover How To Live

~ TFFS:KWYWTG-KWYAN-KWYHTD ~ The Formula For Success: Know Where You Want To Go – Know Where You Are Now – Know What You Have To Do

~ FO-WYW-N-WYD ~ Focus On – What You Want – Not – What You Don’t

~ S-‘W’-F-‘H’-YMNK-‘H’-TK-Y-A/A/D-A-IIETFOO-‘W’~ Separate – “What” – From – “How” – You May Not Know – “How” – To Keep – Your – Answer / Ambition / Dream – Alive – It Is Essential To Focus Only On “What”

~ KFOYO-YWAKHYAD ~ Keep Focused On Your Outcome – You Will Then Always Know How You Are Doing

~ SDTBTVBTYAA ~ Simply Decide To Be The Very Best That You Already Are

~ KWYHTDTGWYWTG ~ Know What You Have To Do To Get Where You Want To Go

~ YWNOY-F-W-A-U-WTSMSTCT ~ You Will Never Overcome Your – Fears – Worries – And – Unhappiness – With The Same Mindset That Created Them

~ ‘IWIADNTMCTMOORA?’-TYC-DMOTS-TYFA-DSE ~ “Is What I Am Doing Now Taking Me Closer To My Outcome Or Further Away?” – Taking You Closer – Do More Of The Same – Taking You Further Away – Do Something Else

~ WYBSTBT-YSTWITW ~ When You Believe Something To Be True – You See The World In That Way

~ TEMSOWIROHOSSTIDU-U-OC-IE ~ The Ego Mind Switches Off When It Reads Or Hears Or Sees Something That It Doesn’t Understand – Unless – Of Course – It’s Exciting

~ TOWTCYMITSIF-MFIKTYAE ~ The Only Way To Control Your Mind Is To Set It Free – Mind Freedom Is Knowing That You Are Enough

~ YWBTBY ~ You Were Born To Be You

~ ITTCOFTSALTLYWMTL ~ It’s Time To Come Out From The Shadows And Live The Life You Were Meant To Live

~ AYHQ ~ Ask Yourself Helpful Questions

~ MACIYLBDSD ~ Make A Change In Your Life By Doing Something Different

~ YWBTBY-ANOE ~ You Were Born To Be You – And No One Else

~ WYG-YAT ~ Wherever You Go – There You Are

~ OPSINYF ~ Other People’s Success Is Not Your Failure

~ YA-YC ~ Your Attitude – Your Choice

~ TH-P-A-LFY-AAAS-TH-P-A-LFO ~ True Humility – Peace – And – Love For Yourself – Are All About Showing – True Humility – Peace – And – Love For Others

~ WYFO-H-L-A-BK-TO-YTDY ~ When You Focus On – Helping – Loving – And – Being Kind – To Others – You Truly Discover Yourself

~ BY-EEIAT ~ Be Yourself – Everyone Else Is Already Taken

~ GTAULTAAEYEM-IAEY ~ Give Total And Unconditional Love To Anyone And Everyone You Ever Meet – Including And Especially Yourself

~ GOLFF-AYWFVF-GAABAF-AYWFM ~ Go Out Looking For Friends – And You Will Find Very Few – Go Out And Be A Friend – And You Will Find Many

~ OYAAR ~ Owning Your Actions And Reactions

~ WAHTOACOWW-T-S-D ~ We Always Have Total Ownership And Choice Over What We – Think – Say – Do

~ TOTTPWBGTSHOYIWYABAWYD ~ The Only Time That People Will Be Guaranteed To Speak Highly Of You Is When You Are Born And When You Die

~ IYCFAPOL-YWSO-R-W-A-L-TEYM ~ If You Come From A Place Of Love – You Will Send Out – Radiance – Warmth – And – Love – To Everyone You Meet

~ WMUOOR-WLIWOOOBOTM-WGOA-TES-E-T-A-M ~ We Make Up Our Own Realities – We Live In Worlds Of Our Own Based On The Meaning – We Give Or Attach – To Every Single – Event – Thought – And – Moment

~ WDSTATA-WSTAWA ~ We Don’t See Things As They Are – We See Things As We Are

~ ‘F’-IWYDITB ~ “Failure” – Is What You Define It To Be

~ WAMITDOODT ~ We Automatically Move In The Direction Of Our Dominant Thoughts

~ WWBSTBT-WSTWTW ~ When We Believe Something To Be True – We See The World That Way

~ TFWTMACIOLITAAITCHABM-TNOTTI-‘AI’ ~ The Fastest Way To Make Any Change In Our Life Is To Act As If That Change Has Already Been Made – The Name Of This Technique Is – “As If”

~ WYLWI-TWIO ~ When You Love What Is – The War Is Over

~ YAY-A-TIATYENTB ~ You Are You – And – That Is All That You Ever Need To Be

~ SIGWYW-HIWWYG ~ Success Is Getting What You Want – Happiness Is Wanting What You Get

~ TBQOA:WAYAWAYH?~ The Biggest Question Of All: Who Are You And Why Are You Here?

~ WH ~ Welcome Home

~ TY ~ Thank You

MARIE-MONIQUE ROBIN ~ OUR DAILY POISON ~ 2014

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~ PAP ~ Pesticides Are Poisons

~ S&I:MD ~ Science And Industry: Manufacturing Doubt

~ DOW ~ Diseases of Workers

~ “CSC” ~ “Chimney Sweep Cancer”

~ DCBP ~ Driven Crazy By Poison

~ ESTITTHOWGAA-ICD-OANPOI ~ Everything Seems To Indicate That The Horrors Observed Were Generally Accepted As – Inevitable Collateral Damage – Of A Necessary Process Of Industrialization

~ IATRSARWI-IIB-IBSHTCAMROTTOIP-WWAMWO-ATSWTMTIKITNOTDOPH ~ If All These Researchers’ Studies And Recommendations Were Ignored – It Is Because – Industry Began Strategizing How To Control And Manipulate Research On The Toxicity Of Its Products – While Waging A Merciless War On – All The Scientists Wishing To Maintain Their Independence In The Name Of The Defense Of Public Health

~ ILDTL ~ Industry Lays Down The Law

~ LSITNOS ~ Leaden Silence In The Name Of Science

~ TPUOPP:‘TDMTP’ ~ The Perverse Use Of Paracelsus’s Principle: “The Dose Makes The Poison”

~ TFFAPOT-SC-WNBUTTMTSC-B-OTC-TJIC-TTPSA ~ The Findings From Autopsies Performed On The – Small Cadavers – Would Not Be Used To Take Measures To Stop Contamination – But – On The Contrary – To Justify Its Continuation – Thanks To Pseudo-Scientific Arguments

~ ‘ADI’-TAAHBCSIDWBI-TCAF-P-ITGS-WTOTBW-BWTAFVBERAITW ~ “Acceptable Daily Intake” – The Amount A Human Being Can Supposedly Ingest Daily Without Becoming Ill – These Completely Arbitrary Figures – Produced – In The Greatest Secrecy – Would Turn Out To Be Wrong – But Were Taken At Face Value By Every Regulatory Agency In The World

~ ‘DIOP’ ~ “Doubt Is Our Product”

~ MOS ~ Mercenaries Of Science

~ ‘PS’ ~ “Prostituted Science”

~ IM ~ Industry Mercenaries

~ OACOI ~ Outcry About Conflicts Of Interest

~ IHOA ~ Industry’s Hold On Academia

~ IDT ~ Industry’s Double Talk

~ AEOCD ~ An Epidemic Of Chronic Diseases

~ IIETSC ~ Industry Involvement Embarrasses The Scientific Community

~ RAIBAC ~ Regulation At Industry’s Beck And Call

~ TCSMB-‘ADI’ ~ The Colossal Scientific Masquerade Behind – “Acceptable Daily Intakes”

~ T-‘POEE’-INBOASD-R-ISFAPD ~ The – “Principle Of Essential Equivalence” – Is Not Based On Any Scientific Data – Rather – It Stems From A Political Decision

~ FS ~ Falsified Studies

~ ‘NOAEL’ ~ “No-Observed Adverse Effect Level”

~ ‘IWDBT-B-M-ABOGSAAT ~ “It Was Decided By The – BOGSAT – Method – A Bunch Of Guys Sitting Around A Table”

~ TDFO-‘RS’ ~ The Driving Force Of – “Risk Society”

~ ‘MRL’ ~ “Maximum Residue Limits”

~ III-‘C’ ~ Industry Information Is – “Confidential”

~ SS ~ Sloppy Studies

~ TSSOED ~ The Shocking Scandal Of Endocrine Disruptors

~ PCBAE ~ PCBs Are Everywhere

~ THWD ~ The Historic Wingspread Declaration

~ OTSHPTF-ITTS ~ Once The Substance Has Penetrated The Fetus – It’s There To Stay

~ ADI-BO-‘EHTDFTSC’ ~ ADI: Based On – “Erroneous Hypotheses That Date From The Sixteenth Century”

~ TCE ~ The Cocktail Effect

~ T-‘CBB’ ~ The – “Chemical Body Burden”

~ APCITUC ~ A Pesticide Cocktail In The Umbilical Cord

~ ‘ALM’ ~ “Acceptable Level Magicians”

~ TPP:TNDOREP ~ The Precautionary Principle: The Necessary Democratization Of Risk Evaluation Processes

~ ‘STPO-VCWR-CDNHR-PD’ ~ Stop The Practice Of – Vesting Chemicals With Rights – Chemicals Do Not Have Rights – People Do”

ORI BRAFMAN + ROM BRAFMAN ~ CLICK ~ THE MAGIC OF INSTANT CONNECTIONS ~ 2010

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~ C-A-I-D-A-M-C-W-AP-O-WTWAU ~ Clicking – An – Immediate – Deep – And – Meaningful – Connection – With – Another Person – Or – With The World Around Us

~ C-IAA-TMWWTPACWOAWEAU ~ Clicking – It’s Also About – Those Moments When We’re Truly Present And Connected With Others And With Everything Around Us

~ TPIV ~ There’s Power In Vulnerability

~ OAAWTBVCAAMC-TTTBMOAIWPWAMOAIWUIHIU-OC-VIMEWIGAS ~ One’s Ability And Willingness To Be Vulnerable Can Accelerate A Meaningful Connection – This Tendency To Be More Open And Intimate With People Who Are More Open And Intimate With Us Is Hardwired In Us – Of Course – Vulnerability Is Most Effective When It’s Genuine And Sincere

~ WANRTV-ROWICFAIC-OAS-P ~ We Are Naturally Receptive To Vulnerability – Regardless Of Whether It Comes From An Inanimate Computer – Or A Skilled – Politician

~ TPOP-TLOC-OFAMCWS-IETCWATTP-EA-TPR-SPTIOOF ~ The Power of Proximity – The Likelihood Of Clicking – Of Forming A Meaningful Connection With Someone – Increases Exponentially The Closer We Are To That Person – Exponential Attraction – The Proximity Rule – So Powerful That It Overrides Other Factors

~ WEC ~ When Everything Clicks

~ IWTWCOOTE-NASWIE-PCSI-’PC’-B-TC-T-RIOC ~ If We Take Words Completely Out Of The Equation – Not A Single Word Is Exchanged – Psychologists Call Such Interactions – “Passive Contacts” – But – These Contacts – Too – Register In Our Consciousness

~ TMPCWSWAP-TMLWATGTHOH ~ The More Passive Contacts We Share With Another Person – The More Likely We Are To Gravitate Toward Him Or Her

~ TOATFBCJIT-IF-FABR ~ The Old Adage That Familiarity Breeds Contempt Just Isn’t True – In Fact – Familiarity Actually Breeds Regard

~ P-TOPOAC-AOE-WCBCDAUOTAU-ATOE-TP-AMITTTLOTIIAUPM ~ Presence – Think Of Presence On A Continuum – At One End – We Can Be Completely Disengaged And Unaware Of Those Around Us – At The Other Extreme – Transformative Presence – A Meaningful Interaction That Touches The Lives Of Those Involved In A Uniquely Profound Manner

~ I-EAIWASOPACA-OUA ~ Intentionality – Entering An Interaction With A Sense Of Purpose And Conscious Awareness – Our Undivided Attention

~ M-BOAATMTOPWTA-FOTSAOTAHIITR-RTGAOTTSAP ~ Mutuality – Being Open And Available To Meet The Other Person Where They Are – Focusing On The Shared Aspects Of Trust And Honesty Involved In The Relationship – Rather Than Giving Advice Or Trying To Solve A Problem

~ I-BAAAOOOGER ~ Individuality – Being Authentic And Aware Of Our Own Genuine Emotional Reactions

~ PRA-DCTAI-AL-AAPTE-SOOR-DTTOPTWAAPITI ~ Presence Requires Attentiveness – Demonstrating Care Through Active Involvement – Actively Listening – Asking A Person To Elaborate – Sharing Our Own Reactions – Demonstrating To The Other Person That We’re An Active Participant In The Interaction

~ TBP-AWI-LAMI-A-RITWOISAATTEATAU ~ To Become Present – Arrive With Intention – Listen And Mutually Interact – And – Remain In Touch With Our Individual Selves And Attentive To The Environment And Those Around Us

~ R-WWASWIIASOR-WAMLTETSAW-WAMLTC ~ Resonance – When We’re Around Someone Who Is In A State Of Resonance – We Are More Likely To Enter That State As Well – We Are More Likely To Click

~ RBR ~ Resonance Begets Resonance

~ TCORCBTNTTPOMN-TCNHBCMNBTATIOAEVTSIINEITPB-BWIIINJBBEAW ~ The Contagiousness Of Resonance Can Be Traced Neurologically To The Phenomenon Of Mirror Neurons – These Copycat Neurons Have Been Called Mirror Neurons Because They Appear To Imitate Others’ Actions Even When The Subject Itself Is Not Engaged In That Particular Behavior – But What Is Imitated Is Not Just Behaviors But Emotions As Well

~ TSPOS ~ The Seductive Power Of Similarity

~ OWAPIOI-G-WSSTIADL:W-KTT-MG ~ Once We Accept People Into Our In-Group – We Start Seeing Them In A Different Light: We’re – Kinder To Them – More Generous

~ AGBORST-TGTIOTA-TSTBTIEBTPA ~ A Growing Body Of Research Suggests That – The Greater The Intensity Of The Adversity – The Stronger The Bond That Is Established Between The Participants Afterwards

~ IIWWCDJATSOORWTOP-TBOTBIUAW-BAOWWWCCSUTPAAHL ~ Interactions In Which We Click Don’t Just Affect The Strength Of Our Relationship With The Other Person – They Bring Out The Best In Us As Well – Being Around Others With Whom We Click Can Spur Us To Perform At A Higher Level

~ CCB-W-M ~ Connection Can Be – Well – Magical

JAMES HUGHES ~ WHY WE CAN’T AFFORD POVERTY ~ 2011

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~ TCFPN-SWDPML ~ The Case For Paying Now – So We Don’t Pay More Later

~ TDASOSP ~ The Dollars And Sense Of Solving Poverty

~ WAFE-OSOCFIAFIN-AAEOTLRAEK-N-FPOEI ~ With A Few Exceptions – Our Systems Of Care For Individuals And Families In Need – Are Almost Exclusively Of The Last Resort And Emergency Kind – Not – For Prevention Or Early Intervention

~ WAKIOHTTSAITPN-WKITAUOPIDWAPOC-PCPFAITFP-OALTMEMOTP ~ We All Know In Our Hearts That The Smarter Approach Is To Pay Now – We Know Intuitively That An Ounce Of Prevention Is Definitely Worth A Pound Of Cure – Preventing Costly Problems From Arising In The First Place – Or At Least The Most Expensive Manifestations Of The Problem

~ TGBORAE-STITRPBE ~ The Growing Body Of Research And Experience – Shows That Investing To Reduce Poverty Benefits Everyone

~ TECOPANO-TDCOP-IF-TATOC-IC-HUO-EW-P-C-RE-A-SC-LOPCTSATSTPASIPOE ~ The Economic Costs Of Poverty Are Not Only – The Direct Costs Of Poverty – In Fact – There Are Two Other Categories – Indirect Costs – High Use Of – Emergency Wards – Police – Courts – Remedial Education – And – Societal Costs – Loss Of Potential Contribution To Society And The Strain That Poverty And Steep Inequalities Place On Everyone

ERIK BRYNJOLFSSON + ANDREW MCAFEE ~ THE SECOND MACHINE AGE ~ 2014

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~ W-TAD-CIB-TASWAWP-TSTDE-WAITNRTS ~ When – Things Are Digitized – Converted Into Bits – They Acquire Some Weird And Wonderful Properties – They’re Subject To Different Economics – Where Abundance Is The Norm Rather Than Scarcity

~ GDANLPO-A-TDM ~ Digital Goods Are Not Like Physical Ones – And – These Difference Matter

~ ETMBDHUCTMBM ~ Even The Most Beneficial Developments Have Unpleasant Consequences That Must Be Managed

~ TPIGTLBSP-PEALOP-AIRA ~ Technological Progress Is Going To Leave Behind Some People – Perhaps Even A Lot Of People – As It Races Ahead

~ IITDTLNCOTSMAASADAHTMT-TNI-B-TWFT-E ~ It’s Important To Discuss The Likely Negative Consequences Of The Second Machine Age And Start A Dialogue About How To Mitigate Them – They’re Not Insurmountable – But – They Won’t Fix Themselves – Either

~ AAS-TCADTEIA-AD-H-ITMCAIT ~ Algorithms Are Simplifications – They Can’t And Don’t Take Everything Into Account – Algorithms Do – However – Include The Most Common And Important Things

~ WKMTWCT ~ We Know More Than We Can Tell

~ ITDOTSMA-ITC-E-D-C ~ It’s The Dawn Of The Second Machine Age – It’s Three Characteristics – Exponential – Digital – Combinatorial

~ SLAM ~ Simultaneous Localization And Mapping

~ NE-ASWTVOARFEOIUIWEAU ~ Network Effect – A Situation Where The Value Of A Resource For Each Of Its Users Increases With Each Additional User

~ TEOB ~ The Economics Of Bits

~ MT-F-P-A-I-MSLUEFMP-BAMIID-MPWFITC ~ Making Things – Free – Perfect – And – Instant – Might Seem Like Unreasonable Expectations For Most Products – But As More Information Is Digitized – More Products Will Fall Into These Categories

~ M2M ~ Machine-To-Machine – Devices Sharing Data With One Another Over Networks

~ MLYNR ~ New Layers Yield New Recipes

~ GPT ~ General Purpose Technologies

~ IACT ~ Information and Communication Technologies

~ T-’I-A-B-B’-VOTW-BBDEGEOOUU-IF-TITOFFR ~ The – “Innovation-As-Building-Block” – View Of The World – Building Blocks Don’t Ever Get Eaten Or Otherwise Used Up – In Fact – They Increase The Opportunities For Future Recombinations

~ BOI-CS ~ Billions of Innovators – Coming Soon

~ BATEHC-S-T-MOM ~ But As The Economy Has Changed – So – Too – Must Our Metrics

~ MAMWWCAITSMAA-INT-MNM-BNA-A-INT ~ More And More What We Care About In The Second Machine Age Are – Ideas Not Things – Mind Not Matter – Bits Not Atoms – And – Interactions Not Transactions

~ TGIOTIAIT-IMW-WAKLATSOVITETWDFYA-MOTCHBIFALTSBWDNKWTLF ~ The Great Irony Of This Information Age Is That – In Many Ways – We Actually Know Less About The Sources Of Value In The Economy Than We Did Fifty Years Ago – Much Of The Change Has Been Invisible For A Long Time Simply Because We Did Not Know What To Look For

~ WT-GDP-LO ~ What – GDP – Leaves Out

~ F:GFWB-BF-GDP ~ Free: Good For Well-Being – Bad for – GDP

~ R&R ~ Reputations And Recommendations

~ IA ~ Intangible Assets

~ NMANFTSMA ~ New Metrics Are Needed For The Second Machine Age

~ WGMGD-IWALATWG-WWMTWDAGTWO-IWMOT-TWWCTITWMUBO ~ What Get Measured Gets Done – If We Are Looking At The Wrong Gauges – We Will Make The Wrong Decisions And Get The Wrong Outputs – If We Measure Only Tangibles – Then We Won’t Catch The Intangibles That Will Make Us Better Off

~ IWDM-P&I-TWWGTMPANEI ~ If We Don’t Measure – Pollution And Innovation – Then We Will Get Too Much Pollution And Not Enough Innovation

~ NETCCBC-A-NETCBC-C ~ Not Everything That Counts Can Be Counted – And – Not Everything That Can Be Counted – Counts

~ HTMWD? ~ How’s The Median Worker Doing?

~ ASSOABP ~ A Smaller Slice Of A Bigger Pie

~ DTTTITEPTW-WOBLEAHLWR ~ Digital Technologies Tend To Increase The Economic Payoff To Winners – While Others Become Less Essential And Hence Less Well Rewarded

~ TSSABCIE ~ The Skill Set Affected By Computerization Is Evolving

~ TBW:S&S ~ The Biggest Winners: Stars And Superstars

~ MTG ~ Mind The Gap

~ WRALTAD ~ When Relative Advantage Leads To Absolute Domination

~ TSAOS ~ The Social Acceptability Of Superstars

~ TPCN ~ The Power Curve Nation

~ I-L-D-PR-A-TROL-IOBP-EO-OTBTEATROTGTSOEE-PP ~ Institutions – Like – Democracy – Property Rights – And – The Rule Of Law – Inclusive Ones Bring Prosperity – Extractive Ones – Ones That Bend The Economy And The Rules Of The Game To The Service Of Entrenched Elite – Bring Poverty

~ TU ~ Technological Unemployment

~ AAE:G ~ An Alternative Explanation: Globalization

~ MOOC ~ Massive Online Open Courses

~ TFF ~ The Fuzzy Future

~ SWMT-TW ~ Since We Must Tax – Tax Wisely

~ PT ~ Pigovian Taxes

~ TOER ~ Taxes On Economic Rents

~ RTBI ~ Revisiting The Basic Income

~ GI ~ Guaranteed Income

~ TNIT ~ The Negative Income Tax

~ TPE ~ The Peer Economy

~ WIW ~ Wild Ideas Welcomed

~ SA-‘MBH’-LM ~ Start A – “Made By Humans” – Labeling Movement

~ WOATDACDUOTARETKUS? ~ Will Our Ability To Detect And Counteract Destructive Uses Of Technology Advance Rapidly Enough To Keep Us Safe?

~ ITSMA-WNTTMMDA-WIIWRW-AWWV-BAIASAS ~ In The Second Machine Age – We Need To Think Much More Deeply About – What It Is We Really Want – And What We Value – Both As Individuals And As A Society

~ TIND-WSOD ~ Technology Is Not Destiny – We Shape Our Destiny

ALAN WHITEHORN ~ BASED ON WORK BY GREGORY STANTON ~ THE STEPS AND STAGES OF GENOCIDE ~ 2010

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~ C-U-S-D-S-TIV-A-OWEC ~ Classification ~ Using – Simplistic – Dualistic – Stereotypes – That Ignore Variations – And – Overlaps Within Each Category

~ S-CSFDTJ ~ Symbolization ~ Classification Slips From Describing To Judging

~ D-TVGIPAFOTMCAPANB-TSFSA-A-EDABLTFH ~ Dehumanization ~ The Victim Group Is Portrayed As Falling Outside The Main Community And Perceived As Not Belonging – Then Scapegoated For Society’s Ills – And – Eventually Described As Being Less Than Fully Human

~ O-MBOMOVG-ASCBAOTVDPFA ~ Organization ~ Mobilization Begins Of Militia Or Vigilante Groups And State Censorship Blocks Accounts Of The Victims’ Desperate Pleas For Assistance

~ PAIE-TASFAMLI-STVGOICR-SOOPPTMRTVGAD ~ Polarization And Increased Inequality ~ The Authoritarian State Formalizes And Magnifies Legal Inequalities – Stripping The Victim Group Of Its Citizenship Rights – Social Organizations Or Political Parties That Might Represent The Vulnerable Group Are Disbanded

~ P-TIVNTBI-OFTWIS-L-SFTP-A-D-DLADUWNOPRLATT ~ Preparation ~ The Intended Victims Need To Be Identified – Often Forced To Wear Identifying Symbols – Located – Separated From The Public – And – Disarmed – Death Lists Are Drawn Up With Names Of Potential Resistance Leaders At The Top

~ E-TKMBDBFNFADCORHFSMGOWTABGWTV-BMO-TKIB-FVG-M-O-PSEU-FBTPATA ~ Extermination ~ The Killing May Be Done By Former Neighbours From A Different Clan Or Religion Hoping For Some Material Gain Or Wishing To Avoid Being Grouped With The Victims – But More Often – The Killing Is By – Fanatical Vigilante Groups – Militias – Or – Paramilitary Special Extermination Units – Facilitated By – The Police And The Army

~ D-TCDAMIOTEOSPAEASOSAC-TVTABFCTTTOTWBT ~ Denial ~ The Conspirators Deny Any Malevolent Intent Or The Existence Of Secret Plans And Employ A Screen Of Secrecy And Censorship – The Victims Themselves Are Blamed For Causing The Terrible Times Or Triggering What Befell Them

STEVEN PRESSFIELD ~ DO THE WORK ~ 2011

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~ SBYR-DP-B ~ Start Before You’re Ready – Don’t Prepare – Begin

~ TEIR-OCB-E-A-TSJ-A-AMRWW-C/S/W ~ The Enemy Is Resistance – Our Chattering Brain – Excuses – Alibies – Transparent Self-Justifications – And – A Million Reasons Why We – Can’t/Shouldn’t/Won’t

~ RCBR-WWTW-NPTW ~ Research Can Become Resistance – We Want To Work – Not Prepare To Work

~ SP-COATPL ~ Stay Primitive – Conception Occurs At The Primal Level

~ DYTBDY-S/NB/PE-TASP ~ Discipline Yourself To Boil Down Your – Story/New Business/Philanthropic Enterprise – To A Single Page

~ WCNER-IWNGA-BWCOI-AWCEATAAPAII ~ We Can Never Eliminate Resistance – It Will Never Go Away – But We Can Outsmart It – And We Can Enlist Allies That Are As Powerful As It Is

~ OTWC-N-N-POTD-ITTRL-TUIOTFTTIIA ~ One Thing We Can – Never – Never – Permit Ourselves To Do – Is To Take Resistance Lightly – To Underestimate It Or To FaIl To Take It Into Account

~ DWAQ-A-DR-MIE ~ Don’t Worry About Quality – Act – Don’t Reflect – Momentum Is Everything

~ GTFVOYPD-FATZ-AFAYC ~ Get The First Version Of Your Project Done – From A To Z – As Fast As You Can – Don’t Stop – Don’t Look Down – Don’t Think – Get Something Done – However Flawed Or Imperfect – You Are Not Allowed To Judge Yourself

~ ICATTOL-TLINR-INL-WMGTMBWGTE-FRT-P-PLAC ~ Ideas Come According To Their Own Logic – That Logic Is Not Rational – It’s Not Linear – We May Get The Middle Before We Get The End – Forget Rational Thought – Play – Play Like A Child

~ OJINTCOI;OJITFOWOII-AWTB-ATBIIB ~ Our Job Is Not To Control Our Idea; Our Job Is To Figure Out What Our Idea Is – and Wants To Be – And Then Bring It Into Being

~ WAIPIOHAWT-’N-TITC’-TTIWW ~ When An Idea Pops Into Our Head And We Think – “No – This Is Too Crazy” – That’s The Idea We Want

~ TOORIA ~ The Opposite Of Resistance Is Assistance

~ AWIPGIOEF-IOGF-CBYWAYA-TFAL-SEIIO ~ A Work In Progress Generates Its Own Energy Field – Its Own Gravitational Field – Created By Your Will And Your Attention – This Field Attracts Like-Spirited Entities Into Its Orbit

~ RPTQTEAAOU:’HBDYWI?’-’WDYWI?’ ~ Resistance Puts Two Questions To Each And All Of Us: “How Bad Do You Want It?” – “Why Do You Want It?”

~ OCFIFOS ~ Our Greatest Fear Is Fear Of Success

~ WWAS-TI-WWHBTOOS-DAS-S-WWAAIOCAETAHL-TWPS ~ When We Are Succeeding – That Is – When We Have Begun To Overcome Our Self-Doubt And Self-Sabotage – When We Are Advancing In Our Craft And Evolving To A Higher Level – That’s When Panic Strikes

~ WWEP-IMTWATCAT-WPOTDOAHP ~ When We Experience Panic – It Means That We’re About To Cross A Threshold – We’re Poised On The Doorstep Of A Higher Plane

~ BFITCPOAP-IWCF-AOWIFN ~ Because Finishing Is The Critical Part Of Any Project – If We Can’t Finish – All Our Work Is For Nothing

~ FTDIFFS-INHTFAA ~ From The Day I Finally Finished Something – I’ve Never Had Trouble Finishing Anything Again

TOM KALIL ~ HOW TO RUN A PRIZE

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~ SASOAPOO ~ Shine A Spotlight On A Problem Or Opportunity

~ POFR ~ Pay Only For Results

~ TAAGWPWTOAIMLTS ~ Target An Ambitious Goal Without Predicting Which Team Or Approach Is Most Likely To Succeed

~ RBUSTTTT ~ Reach Beyond Usual Suspects To Tap Top Talent

~ SPSIMTGTTPP ~ Stimulate Private-Sector Investment Many Times Greater Than The Prize Purse

~ B-O-O-D-PTB ~ Bring – Out-Of-Discipline – Perspectives To Bear

~ IRTBOALPF ~ Inspire Risk Taking By Offering A Level Playing Field

~ ECTMAVP ~ Establish Clear Target Metrics And Validation Protocols

ELIZAETH BLACKBURN + ELISSA EPEL ~ TIPS FOR CREATING NEW HABITS – TIPS FOR BREAKING OLD HABITS ~ THE TELOMERE EFFECT ~ 2017

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~ SC-SIYNHP-ISD ~ Small Changes – Slip Into Your New Habit Painlessly – In Small Doses

~ SI-TYSCOAATAARPOYD ~ Staple It – Tack Your Small Change Onto An Activity That’s Already A Routine Part Of Your Day

~ MAGLZ-TTSYCFTM-TLL-

~ DD-JD ~ Don’t Decide – Just Do

~ CI-HAQMCETYPYNH ~ Celebrate It – Have A Quick Mini-Celebration Each Time You Practice Your New Habit

~ IYBATEYP-FAT ~ Increase Your Brain’s Ability To Execute Your Plans – Foster Analytical Thought

~ DTTCWYAFD-WUTCAIYF ~ Don’t Try The Change When You Are Feeling Depleted – Wait Until The Conditions Are In Your Favor

~ SC-SYSTRTNOTYT ~ Stimulus Control – Shape Your Surroundings To Reduce The Number Of Times You’re Tempted

~ FYNAR-YHMETSYWP ~ Follow Your Natural Alertness Rhythms – You’ll Have More Energy To Stoke Your Will Power

TOM HODGKINSON ~ HOW TO BE IDLE ~ 2004

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~ NOIERTU-B-LIBHA-IPBTHAH ~ Not Only Is Early Rising Totally Unnatural – But – Lying In Bed Half-Awake – Is Positively Beneficial To Health And Happiness

~ GALRANB-LRIFTIOM-TIWRTBAST-W/M/A ~ Greatness And Late Rising Are Natural Bedfellows – Late Rising Is For The Independent Of Mind – The Individual Who Refuses To Become A Slave To – Work / Money / Ambition

~ IOTHIATTPHTRTI-CPNTT-AMSIOOTBTTDT ~ In Order To Have Ideas And Then To Plan How To Realize Those Ideas – Creative People Need Thinking Time – And Morning Snoozing Is One Of The Best Times To Do This

~ TIOT‘J’ATATAW-IAS-IOOTMPMOMS ~ The Idea Of The ‘Job’ As The Answer To All Woes – Individual And Social – Is One Of The Most Pernicious Myths Of Modern Society

~ WWETIWOWWASSATHWET ~ When We Enter The Ignoble World Of Work We Are Soon Shocked At The Humiliations We Encounter There

~ TJWIIOTMTEFTATT-WIHW-FOP ~ The Job Was Invented In Order To Make Things Easier For Those At The Top – Who Believed In Hard Work – For Other People

~ WKTMPPY-YISN‘WOW’BD ~ Work Kills Two Million People Per Year – Yet I See No ‘War On Work’ Being Declared

~ IIPTPUFTTMTSPUATGOOB-ICLT-TTT-AVOTT-ACIOTHO-O-F-D-W ~ It Is Precisely To Prevent Us From Thinking Too Much That Society Pressurizes Us All To Get Out Of Bed – Introspection Could Led To – That Terrible Thing – A Vision Of The Truth – A Clear Image Of The Horror Of – Our – Fractured – Dissonant – World

~ GDNLTI-TIWT ~ Governments Do Not Like The Idle – The Idle Worry Them

~ HMBLWBIWBTDWAPRTTEPON-WTDO-F-H-E-A-J ~ How Much Better Life Would Be If We Began The Day With A Poem Rather Than The Empty Prattle Of Newspapers – With Their Diet Of – Fear – Hate – Envy – And – Jealousy

~ I-V-THRTBVBTCOO-TEAO-THCT ~ Idlers – Visionaries – They Have Refused To Be Victimized By The Customs Of Others – Their Eyes Are Open – They Have Created Time

~ TDOPISOAIFOSIABM ~ The Deferral Of Pleasure In Service Of An Imaginary Future Of Stability Is A Bourgeois Myth

~ KN ~ Keeping Nix

~ SM-ATOIS-ABUI-TBTW-OATWOTE ~ Saint Monday – A Tradition Of Institutionalized Skiving – A Bottom-Up Initiative – Taken By The Worker – Often Against The Will Of The Employers

~ WNTCLB-IIONR-IHBSFUBOR-LIATTFAB-S/P/E ~ We Need To Claim Lunch Back – It Is Our Natural Right – It Has Been Stolen From Us By Our Rulers – Lunch Is A Time To Forget About Being – Sensible / Practical / Efficient

~ TBICBADWTRLITIAFWKTAYC ~ That Being Ill Can Be A Delightful Way To Recapture Lost Idling Time Is A Fact Well Known To All Young Children

~ TIOCWTETPOBIBTTOTAIOT-AATTGOSBUA ~ The Idea Of Convalescence Was To Extend The Period Of Being Ill Beyond The Time Of The Actual Illness Or Trauma – And Allow Time To Get One’s Strength Back Up Again

~ TN ~ The Nap

~ IPEN ~ In Paradise Everyone Naps

~ ANIAPPAIU-ISTDITH-MEHMMAE ~ A Nap Is A Perfect Pleasure And It’s Useful – It Splits The Day Into Two Halves – Making Each Half More Manageable And Enjoyable

~ HMEIITWITM-IWKWHANTLFTAL ~ How Much Easier It Is To Work In The Morning – If We Know We Have A Nap To Look Forward To After Lunch

~ TFT ~ Time For Tea

~ POD-FB-LRP ~ Paroxysms Of Diligence – Followed By – Long Rest Periods

~ TR-TPITHAMMOB-WFP-OBDNI-INIAH-W-D-WAM-G-F ~ The Ramble – The Pedestrian Is The Highest And Most Mighty Of Beings – Walks For Pleasure – Observes But Does Not Interfere – Is Not In A Hurry – Wanders – Detached – Wise And Merry – Godlike – Free

~ B-TWTMSH-BTDRCWII-TITBOO-WIWITTB-NCWDTT-ACTTFUPITDTAW ~ Botherers – They Want To Make Something Happen – But They Don’t Really Care What It Is – They Impose Their Beliefs On Others – What Is Worse Is That The Botherers – Not Content With Doing Things Themselves – Are Constantly Trying To Force Us Poor Idlers To Do Things As Well

~ AIIATAADAIFI ~ An Idler Is A Thinker And A Dreamer And Is Fiercely Independent

~ WCUWTIOTSWAIOG-WCBMITORTTSS? ~ Whoever Came Up With The Idea Of The Strike Was An Idler Of Genius – What Could Be More Irritating To Our Rulers Than To Simply Stop?

~ S&I ~ Sex And Idleness

~ TAOC-T-SIAS-WFOAN-TITLOTL-I-EIC-AA-E/I/C/TA-BTAC ~ The Art Of Conversation – Talking – Sharing Ideas And Stories – With Friends Old And New – This Is The Lifeblood Of The Loafer – Ideas – Emerge In Conversation – And Are – Embellished / Improved / Contradicted / Torn Apart – By The Assembled Company

~ DDI-TAI-ITTTAIWD-TIWGDOIOT ~ Don’t Do It – Talk About It – If The Thing Talked About Is Worth Doing – Then It Will Get Done On Its Own Time

~ TAOTTCDOORTP ~ The Authorities Occasionally Try To Crack Down On Our Right To Party

~ YHPOOTBML-SWNEYN-WAEWAP0SMTNTBE ~ You Have Plenty Of Opportunity To Be Miserable Later – So Why Not Enjoy Yourself Now – We Are Equipped With A Pleasure-Seeking Muscle That Needs To Be Exercised

~ TTIWTLAGLATT-NJOSN ~ The True Idler Wants To Live A Good Life All The Time – Not Just On Saturday Nights

~ HSPIOHTL-ISNBAMOLII-AIIU ~ Hedonism Should Provide Ideas On How To Live – It Should Not Become A Mode Of Living In Itself – As It Is Unsustainable

~ TINPFOITM ~ There Is No Purer Form Of Idleness Than Meditation

~ SIADP-APO-AGU-ABQ ~ Sleep Is A Delicious Procrastination – A Putting-Off – A Giving Up – A Big Quit

~ SINFW-SIFTSB-TGO-THOTKTH-TI ~ Sleep Is Not For Wimps – Sleep Is For The Stronger Breed – The Great Ones – The Holders Of The Key To Happiness – The Idle

~ IWCBHWLS-DINTFTWWHTWL-AWWNLM? ~ If We Could Be Happier With Less Stuff – Does It Not Then Follow That We Would Have To Work Less – As We Would Need Less Money?

~ AOT-WAPWMI-TIOAHAAEFTHOWIARRI ~ At One Time – Work And Play Were More Intermingled – The Idea Of A Holiday As An Escape From The Hell Of Work Is A Relatively Recent Idea

~ LIACCFGCPTETSTTPOEICPAOAAO ~ Living In A Constant Chase For Gain Compels People To Expend Their Spirit To The Point Of Exhaustion In Continual Pretence And Overreaching And Anticipating Others

~ OSMBFITNOOPL ~ One Solution May Be Found In The Notion Of Off-Peak Living

~ IWITMAHAHEA ~ I Work In The Morning And Have A Holiday Every Afternoon

~ WYALAIL-YHNTTEF ~ When You Are Living An Idle Life – You Have No Toil To Escape From

~ IINWTTTIMRFTWNOTH-FIAHANMTTBOW? ~ It Is No Wonder That The True Idler Might Recoil From The Whole Notion Of The Holiday – For Isn’t A Holiday Actually No More Than The Brother Of Work?

~ HTIAHSFTD-HCT-B-T-A-U-WTUOVAFAAWOT ~ How The Idle At Heart Suffer For Their Dreaming – How Cruel The – Bureaucrats – Teachers – And – Usurers – Who Tell Us Our Visions And Fancies Are A Waste Of Time

~ TRT-ITDOESI-ITBTTWT-THDAD ~ The Real Trick – Indeed The Duty Of Every Serious Idler – Is To Bring These Two Worlds Together – To Harmonize Dreamworld And Dayworld

~ WABOOD-TAAOC-LTT-PIIPBDAFTWPSLAVOT ~ We Are Based On Dreams – They Are At Our Centre – Listen To Them – Perhaps It Is Precisely Because Dreams Are Free That We Put So Low A Value On Them

~ IHAD-IIC-L/A/F ~ I Have A Dream – It Is Called – Love / Anarchy / Freedom – It Is Called – Being Idle