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human belief systems are good at absorbing contradictions into their thinking.
Richard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
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Steven Hayes • A Liberated Mind: The essential guide to ACT
educational researcher at the University of Pennsylvania named Erling Boe,
Malcolm Gladwell • Outliers
What must be discovered is a way out of the motivation/demotivation binary, so that disidentification from the control program registers as something other than dejected apathy.
Mark Fisher • Capitalist Realism: Is there no alternative?
This may be because there is only a small effect in most people, or because the results are good but only in a few. Being a scientist, I’m bound by methods which have a solid evidence base, either from research or from wide clinical experience.
Tim Cantopher • Beating Insomnia
If the rifle shooter is not intrinsically motivated to use biofeedback to reduce hisher anxiety level andor does not believe he or she can use the information obtained from the machine to alter performance, biofeedback will be ineffective.Explicit training in systematic practice and self-monitoringhave been shown to be highly predictiveof students,
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Steven Hayes • A Liberated Mind: The essential guide to ACT
In other words, given sufficient coping strategies, people will be willing to tolerate consistent levels of misery for long stretches of time.
Paul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
However, he continues, over the last 50 years the need for people to be “legible” and fit into a standard model of work has merely become “industrially preferable.” This puts government and institutional leaders in a position where they are incentivized to convince people that following rigid paths in their institutions is the correct path for
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