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	<title>MIND READERS DICTIONARY &#187; blame</title>
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		<title>Butterfly punch: Shaming your opponent into putting on kid gloves before you knock him out.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:17:02 +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 fight on?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[What should I do about this business problem?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Am I missing the forest for trees?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blame]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Decision making]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[moral dilemmas]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rhetoric]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Think back to a time when you fought really hard for something. Back then, how sure were you that you were right? How sure are you now that you were?If you&#8217;re like me, you pick your battles, and sometimes you pick wrong. You also intuitively track how often you changed your mind later about your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sorry: That big dumb powerful word</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2007 12:47:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Can I trust them?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[How should I handle it with my friend?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Should I say it?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[apology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend who once lived in England told me that the word sorry is used differently there, that it is less an apology than an expression of sympathy. Over the years my friend and I have listed alternative meanings of the word sorry and assigned each a country of origin (without much regard to real [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Youjustifications: Why are we fighting? Let me not count the ways</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2007 14:54:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Can I trust them?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[How should I handle it with my friend?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[How should I handle this conflict?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Is there a win/win solution?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Is this a sign?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Is this worth wondering about?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Should I sacrifice?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I say it?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I stay?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[What should I do about this business problem?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Which move helps my career?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Am I expecting too much?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Am I sliding?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blame]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Causality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cause]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Decision making]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[denial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[explanations]]></category>
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		<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>Careful Caring: We can&#8217;t always care, so why feel guilty when called uncaring?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2007 16:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Is there a win/win solution?]]></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 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 stay?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I wait?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[What's the moral thing to do here?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Am I missing the forest for trees?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Am I sliding?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blame]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[charity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[connotations]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[denotations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[generosity]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[kindness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[loaded terms]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tough choices]]></category>
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		<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>There Go I:   Anger from three angles</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/business/there-go-i/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2006 21:41:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Can I trust them?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[How should I handle it with my friend?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[How should I handle this conflict?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Is there a win/win solution?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Is this worth fighting for?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[anger]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[compassion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[About all my huffs and furies, I have to admit to a double standard. In my anger and disdain, I ignore all similarities between me and the objects of my wrath. I’m not typically hypocritical in real time, though that too is sometimes a possibility. When I’m angry or annoyed with someone, I’m probably not—at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Youmeus Point: Out of the frying pan; into you&#8217;re fired</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-trust-them/negotiation/youmeus-point/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Sep 2006 17:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Can I change him?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Can I do better?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Is this worth fighting for?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Is this worth wondering about?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I expect less from them?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I expect more from them?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Should I take what he said to heart?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I wait?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[What's the moral thing to do here?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blame]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bully]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[emotions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If a problem arises between you and me, whose problem is it? Is it you, me or us? To resolve the problem, should you change, should I change, or should we change? Problems come to our attention by way of a feeling, an affective change in one of us &#8211; some physical sensation that tells [...]]]></description>
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