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	<title>MIND READERS DICTIONARY &#187; commitment</title>
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		<title>Ambigamy:  Love&#8217;s lost labors</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/career/ambigamy-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2007 01:44:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Should I commit?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[What should we do about this family issue?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[What to do about finances?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Which move helps my career?]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last song in a series of three, here&#8217;s one whose target audience is not the middle-aged but rather the young and restless. It was inspired by an argument I couldn&#8217;t get started with someone who only wanted to talk about how the media was to blame for youth culture&#8217;s slide into promiscuity. I agreed with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rather Partial: The delicate art of clinging right.</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/children/rather-partial/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2007 15:34:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Should I stay?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[What should we do about this family issue?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aspiration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[commitment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Decision making]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[desire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[partial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[partnership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Romance]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/blog/?p=107</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been a parent for twenty-seven years—but for the past ten, you could say I’ve been a partial parent. Since my divorce my ex-wife and I have each had the kids half-time, so I’ve altered between being the one parent on the scene and in effect hardly being parental at all. The other day I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Liar&#8217;s Paradox Moral Litmus Test: If you contradict yourself you can&#8217;t both be right</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/is-this-worth-fighting-for/conflict/liars-paradox-moral-litmus-test/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/is-this-worth-fighting-for/conflict/liars-paradox-moral-litmus-test/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2007 19:22:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[How should I handle this conflict?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Is there a win/win solution?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I be thinking about the bigger picture?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I get over it?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Am I missing the forest for trees?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Causality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[commitment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Decision making]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emergence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flexibility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hierarchy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[liar's paradox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[moral absolutes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[moral dilemmas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[moral principles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paradoxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rhetoric]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self-cnotradiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self-negation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self-reference]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/blog/?p=65</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some people, when admonished to comply with moral absolutes&#8211;to always be honest, generous, tolerant, or the like&#8211;nod their heads at the sage advice. Me, I no longer see moral absolutes; I only see moral dilemmas. I think of honesty, generosity, tolerance, and other seemingly monolithic virtues as questions, not answers. As of this week I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mid-Wife Crisis: It’s the economy, stupid.</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-change-him/communication/mid-wife-crisis/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-change-him/communication/mid-wife-crisis/#comments</comments>
		<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 this worth wondering about?]]></category>
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		<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>
		<category><![CDATA[Decision making]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[opportunity costs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[partnership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Romance]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tough choices]]></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>Peace Triangle: A way to measure social combustability</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/business/peace-triangle/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/business/peace-triangle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Dec 2006 17:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Which move helps my career?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[activism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ambition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[commitment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[convenience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cost-benefit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Decision making]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[effectiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[importance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[motivation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rationality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[value]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/blog/?p=97</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While I’m confessing, I should also say that I was once a fire chief in rural Tennessee. I was fortunate during my tenure. No one got hurt. Just a few hay barns went up in smoke. Sometimes an idea sticks in your head for no obvious reason and later you find all sorts of uses [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Declaration of Co-dependence: You might as well face it—you’re addicted through love.</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/business/declaration-of-co-depndence/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/business/declaration-of-co-depndence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Oct 2006 14:46:18 +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 negotiate this?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Should I commit?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Should I stay?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[What should I do about this business problem?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[What's the moral thing to do here?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[addiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[attachment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Causality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[co-dependence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[commitment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Decision making]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emergence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mutualism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[organization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parasitism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[partial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love my local grocery store. See, I love to eat. When I don’t eat, I feel like I’m missing something. The grocery store is full of things I can eat. Mine is open 24 hours a day. It’s about ten blocks away and I can drive to it in my reliable car, which I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Load Bearing Walls: Impasses where a lot rests upon our assumptions</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-change-him/communication/load-bearing-walls/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-change-him/communication/load-bearing-walls/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jun 2006 16:39:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Can I change him?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[How can I communicate this to her?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[How should I handle this conflict?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Is there a win/win solution?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Is this a sign?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Is this worth fighting for?]]></category>
		<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 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 just accept this?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I say it?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I stay?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I take what he said to heart?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[What's the moral thing to do here?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[What's the spiritual thing to do?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[assumptions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[belief]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Certainty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[commitment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Decision making]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dependency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[determination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[don't go there]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[faith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flexibility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Learning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[load-bearing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[non-starters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[play]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rhetoric]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Romance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[serious]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[talk to the hand]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/blog/?p=69</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Of all life’s pleasures, one of the sweetest is good conversation. I suppose for some, good conversation is just taking turns telling stories apropos of nothing in particular, but for the rest of us good conversation is a kind of rigorous play, the kind of detective work kids do together, exploring for new clues and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your RV: Repetition and Variation as your re-creational vehicle</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/business/your-rv/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/business/your-rv/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 May 2006 03:16:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Can I do better?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[How should I negotiate this?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Is this a sign?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Is this worth fighting for?]]></category>
		<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 expect less from them?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I expect more from them?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I get over it?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I give in?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I just accept this?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I sacrifice?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I say it?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Should I take what he said to heart?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[What's the moral thing to do here?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[What's the spiritual thing to do?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Which move helps my career?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adaptation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[assumptions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[baby and bath water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[belief]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[commitment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Decision making]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[faith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flexibility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fundamentals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[givens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[investment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[non-negotiables]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[repetition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[retention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rhetoric]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Romance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[telos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[variation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When you&#8217;re deep into the details of some discipline, be it nursing, accounting, auto repair, or mind reading, the number of important factors and considerations gets so great that you need a way to organize them. Here, in the deeps of mind reading, the way to organize the multitude of factors is through careful abstract [...]]]></description>
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