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A Man Without A Country
by Kurt Vonnegut
Joe, a young man from Pittsburgh, came up to me with one request: “Please tell me it will all be okay.”
“Welcome to Earth, young man,” I said. “it’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, Joe, you’ve go about a hundred years here. There’s only rule that I know of: Goddamn it, Joe, you’ve got be kind!”
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The Blank Slate
by Steven Pinker
The Many Roots of Our Suffering
p. 267
Self-deception is among the deepest roots of human strife and folly. It implies that the faculties that ought to allow us to settle our differences-seeking the truth and discussing it rationally-are miscalibrated so that all parties assess themselves to be wiser, abler, and abler than they really are. Each part to a dispute can sincerely believe that the logic and evidence are on his side and that his opponent is deluded or dishonest or both. Self-deception is one of the reasons that the moral sense can, paradoxically, often do more harm than good, a human misfortune we will explore in the next chapter.
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The Things They Carried
by Tim O’Brien
Spin
p. 35
A guy goes AWOL. Shacks up in Danang with a Red Cross nurse. It’s a great time- the nurse loves him to death- the guy gets wheatever he wants whenever he wants it. The war’s over, he thinks. Just nookie and new angles. But then one day he rejoins his unit in the bush. Can’t wait to get back into action. Finally one of his buddies asks what happened with the nurse, why so hot for combat, and the guy says, “All that peace, man, it felt so good it hurt. I want to hurt it back.”
…You’re pinned down in some filthy hellhole of a paddy, getting your ass delivered to kingdom come but then for a few seconds everything goes quiet and you look up and see the sun and a few puffy white clouds, and the immense serenity flashes against your eye balls- the whole world gets rearranged- and even though you’re pinned down by a war you never felt more at peace.
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Change The Way You See Everything
Through Asset-Based Thinking
Just Breathe!
p. 106Whenever a problem arises, your first gut reaction may be alarm. your body’s natural defense mechanism switches on, and all systems are armed and aimed at fighting or fleeing the threat. Every communication breakdown, missed deadline, and costly mistake heightens your focus s you feel a shot of adrenaline restricting your thoughts and speeding your actions. What you may ot be aware of is that your breathing changes too. Your breathing becomes shallow (from your chest, not your abdomen) and the intervals between breaths are much shorter (not so short that you are hyperventilating, but shorter).
A simple yet powerful tool you have your disposal is breath control- the ability to shift your bodyout of a threat reactio into a challenge response by focusing on your breath. Slow it down. Taking five or six deeper breaths should do the trick. Breathing deeply slowly facilitates Asset-Based Thinking. You bcome more creative and less reactive. It puts you in charge of dealing more effectively with the threat at hand. It triggers the excitement of being challenged and dissolves the fear of being threatened. Try it!
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