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	<title>MIND READERS DICTIONARY &#187; Am I sliding?</title>
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		<title>Aspirational Tense: &#8220;I most definitely am, I hope.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/business/aspirational-tense/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2007 17:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ambition]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[naturalist falacy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The relationship between reality and interpretation is always tenuous. Who’s to say what’s real? There is no simple formula to ensure that an interpretation matches reality—and besides, if there were one, we’d be ambivalent about using it. Our impressions bob and weave around our reality. Reality delivers a right uppercut and our impressions slide out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spit or Go Blind: Slang with cosmic implications</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2007 00:49:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/blog/?p=373</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“I can’t tell whether to spit or go blind.” I’ve always liked this phrase (alternatively, “shit or go blind”). It’s slang for confusion in the face of options, and etymologists aren’t sure where it comes from. Its appeal, I suspect, is partly onomatopoetic—it sounds confused. Its appeal may also be the precision with which it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Youjustifications: Why are we fighting? Let me not count the ways</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/business/youjustifications/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2007 14:54:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/blog/?p=169</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Youjustifications : I&#8217;m right because you just&#8230; Again, he&#8217;s ready to leave for an event and she&#8217;s not. He asks her how long she&#8217;ll be, honestly, because once he knows, he can adjust, do something to pass the time, manage his impatience with distractions. It&#8217;s just the uncertainty that irritates him. To appease his impatience [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Myopium: One day at a time as a drug.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[addiction]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[drug]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[monomania]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/blog/?p=87</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the short run I measure my progress by immediate, concrete standards. Did I meet my deadlines? Did she smile at me? Did they say something nice about me? Does my boss think I&#8217;m doing a good job? Did I get a good grade? These may or may not be good standards by which to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Going Uncertain: Casting doubt on inconvenient possibilties.</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/finances/going-uncertain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2007 20:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/blog/?p=52</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Yeah, but relax, you don&#8217;t know that for sure.&#8221; For the most part, people hate uncertainty. It&#8217;s mentally taxing. It distracts us from our focused pursuits. It reduces our confidence. It vaporizes our mojo. Still, we do welcome one kind of uncertainty&#8211;uncertainty that frees us from a larger uncertainty. If current projections about global warming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can&#8217;tibration: What do you mean, you can&#8217;t?</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/business/cantibration/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/business/cantibration/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2007 16:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/blog/?p=17</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Dinner at an all-you-can-eat restaurant last week reminded me how fundamentally ambiguous the word can is. Its meaning falls between “want to” and “can endure without dying,” just as, conversely, the word need falls somewhere between “want” and “will die without.” Imagine an all-you-can-eat restaurant with a reverse bouncer, a big galoot who won’t let [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sweating the petty vs. Petting the sweaty: Two ways to play the game of life</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/should-i-doubt-myself/should-i-hold-onto-my-dream-or-face-reality/sweating-the-petty-vs-petting-the-sweaty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2007 20:46:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/blog/?p=156</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Life is a game.&#8221; People interpret the parallel between life and games in two ways. The most common implies that like a game, life is no big deal, so you should just relax. This notion can be a comfort when you&#8217;re feeling stressed&#8211;stressed, in fact by the other way to take the statement: that in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Careful Caring: We can&#8217;t always care, so why feel guilty when called uncaring?</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-change-him/friends/careful-caring/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2007 16:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/blog/?p=18</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Don&#8217;t say I don&#8217;t care. I do care.&#8221; Like many words, care means different kinds of things. It has its descriptive meaning&#8211;its denotation: Caring is a certain kind of behavior. But it also has its prescriptive meaning&#8211;its connotation: Caring is good. You should care. Being uncaring is bad. Combining denotation and connotation you get a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exempt By Contempt: &#8220;I&#8217;ve checked with me and we both agree you&#8217;re inferior&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-change-him/friends/exempt-by-contempt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2007 18:11:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“I can’t believe how closed-minded he is.” We might conclude that the person who says this is pretty open-minded. After all the more open-minded one is, the less one is able to believe how closed-minded other people can be, right? Not necessarily. For three reasons, it&#8217;s easier to detect others&#8217; closed-mindedness than one&#8217;s own. First, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coherence: Making our ideas consistent with each other</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:50:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Causality]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[correspondence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Decision making]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[double standards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hierarchy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inconsistency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Learning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Logic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[logical inconsistency]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[right hand not knowing what left is doing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Romance]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[two sides of your mouth]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;You’re wrong; it&#8217;s not the same thing at all.&#8221; You press a friend on an inconsistency, some double standard that has him talking out of both sides of his mouth. He denies it and you&#8217;re left to wonder who&#8217;s right, him or you? Well of course it depends. Maybe he is being consistent and his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>R.O.S.C.O. (Right On Schedule, Chill Out): Global warming as inevitable</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-change-him/communication/rosco-right-on-schedule-chill-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2007 02:18:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Can I trust them?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Is this worth wondering about?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I be thinking about the bigger picture?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I commit?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I fight on?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I get over it?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I give in?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I hold onto my dream or face reality?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I sacrifice?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I say it?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I stay?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[What should we do about this family issue?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[What's the moral thing to do here?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[acceptance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Am I expecting too much?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Am I missing the forest for trees?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Am I sliding?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anxiety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Causality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[context]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[empathy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forgivenses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[global warming]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[naturalist fallacy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/blog/?p=106</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I burnt my feet very badly once, spilling ignited gasoline on them by mistake. I went up in flames. For a while I felt no pain. I got to experience the way the body sets upper limits on excruciation in the short term. I take comfort from knowing that some sudden physical shocks don’t feel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bottom Fine Line: Beneath every bottom line secret to success there&#8217;s a fine line between success and failure</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2007 19:08:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[How can I communicate this to her?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Should I get over it?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I give in?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[What's the moral thing to do here?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[absolutes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Am I sliding?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Causality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Decision making]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[false negatives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[false positives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Learning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Logic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[methodoxy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[moral absolutes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[morality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[one-sided solutions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[over-generalizing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you heard about “The Secret”? A student invited me to his house to watch the DVD, which has sold over 1.5 million copies. He claimed it had changed his life. We made an informal field trip of it, but I had to cut the engagement short. It made my skin crawl. I couldn’t stay [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mid-Wife Crisis: It’s the economy, stupid.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2007 17:26:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Can I trust them?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[How can I communicate this to her?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[How should I handle it with my friend?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Is there a win/win solution?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Is this worth wondering about?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[What should I do about this business problem?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[What should we do about this family issue?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[What to do about finances?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[What's the moral thing to do here?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Which move helps my career?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alternatives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Am I expecting too much?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Am I missing the forest for trees?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Am I sliding?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Causality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[commitment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was married by 24 and had my first child at 25. By the standard of my parents’ generation, 24 was normal&#8211;my father married at that age&#8211;but by my generation’s standard (especially within my Northern California subculture), it was peculiar to get married so young. My firstborn child is eight years older than those of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Over-regret; Over-forgive: Deciding when what&#8217;s done is done</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-change-him/friends/over-regret-over-forgive/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2004 19:49:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[wondering]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/blog/?p=94</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[How could I have been so stupid? A simple scheduling oversight costs me hundreds. A project I worked on for months didn&#8217;t win. A momentary lapse leaves me handicaped for life. Somehow the world failed me, or I failed it. What could I have done differently? A few months back we covered false positives and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some-nipotence; Some-nicsience: Having no power or knowledge would be easier</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2004 18:59:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Should I fight on?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Am I expecting too much?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[bets]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Emergence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fallibilism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[god]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[godel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[incompleteness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[omnipotence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Definition: Some power; some knowledge— all we mortals have in comparison to omnipotent and omniscient super-beings we can imagine but cannot be. We have some power and some knowledge. We have the power to change some things we would like to change and to keep some things we would like to keep. We believe some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Selectrician: Wiring yourself for sound growth</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/career/selectrician/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2004 02:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Should I fight on?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[aims]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Am I sliding?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Causality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Decision making]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[getting things done]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[influence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Learning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[natural selection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NIMTYD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[peer pressure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[purposes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self-directedness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self-disciline]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social animal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[will power]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Definition: People who apply the evolutionary theory of natural selection to their own lives, wiring up the natural selective pressures in their environments to bring out the best in them. Have you noticed what a wimp willpower is? We&#8217;d be fools to depend on it to hold us to our New Year&#8217;s resolutions, our diets, [...]]]></description>
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