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	<title>MIND READERS DICTIONARY &#187; Accept vs. Aspire</title>
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		<title>Means and Ends: Opening a can (and can&#8217;t) of worms.</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/what-should-i-do/means-and-ends/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/what-should-i-do/means-and-ends/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:06:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[What should I do?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Accept vs. Aspire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Causality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cause]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Decision making]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[demand]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[explanations]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Paradoxes]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rhetoric]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[supply]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Q: Why do dogs lick their genitals? A: Because they can. As with all jokes, this one is a bait and switch. We were expecting a motive and got a de-constraint instead. The question led us to think about the dog&#8217;s ends (no pun intended), and instead we&#8217;re shunted to consideration of the dog&#8217;s means. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Passive vs. Active Hope: Is a will a way or a way to a way?</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/business/passive-vs-active-hope/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/business/passive-vs-active-hope/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 01:49:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
				<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>
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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>
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		<category><![CDATA[Which move helps my career?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[active hope]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Causality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Decision making]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[expectations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[passive hope]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[perfectionism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[success]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trying]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wisdom]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/?p=931</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Your marriage, business, career, plan to end world hunger isn&#8217;t going so well. Two questions might come to mind: &#8220;How can I succeed?&#8221; and &#8220;Can I succeed?&#8221; The first question focuses you on evaluating specific plans for their probability of success&#8211;hope in this plan or that. But drop that first word and you pop up [...]]]></description>
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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>
		<comments>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/business/aspirational-tense/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2007 17:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[How should I handle it with my friend?]]></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[What should I do about this business problem?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[What to do about finances?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Which move helps my career?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Accept vs. Aspire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Am I expecting too much?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Am I sliding?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ambition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aspiration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Decision making]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hope]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[naturalist falacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[normalist falacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[optimal illusion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Romance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self-deception]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/blog/?p=381</guid>
		<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>Flow: Being a player at work makes work feel like play</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/business/flow/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/business/flow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2007 19:41:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Should I fight on?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I get over it?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Should I hold onto my dream or face reality?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Which move helps my career?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Accept vs. Aspire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ambition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Decision making]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[goal-setting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[happiness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[impressed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[improvement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[in the pocket]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[in the zone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[in-box]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Learning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self-efficacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[throughput]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/blog/?p=44</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By now you’ve no doubt heard of “flow,” the highly pronounceable psychological term coined by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, the psychologist with the nearly unpronounceable name. In case you’ve missed it, flow is another name for being in the zone, at the top of your game&#8211;whatever it may be&#8211;and perfectly involved with what you’re doing, undistracted by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Triads: Variation on a theme of variation on a theme</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-trust-them/negotiation/triads/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-trust-them/negotiation/triads/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Aug 2006 16:28:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Can I change him?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Can I do better?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[How should I negotiate this?]]></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 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[What's the spiritual thing to do?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Accept vs. Aspire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[axe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[C.S.Peirce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Causality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Decision making]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ego]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emergence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[exit]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[fear]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fight]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flight]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[id]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Logic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[loyalty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[me]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[plans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[retention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Romance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[selection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Serenity prayer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[super-ego]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[take it leave it try to change it]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[u.s.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[variation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[voice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[you]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/blog/?p=161</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last issue, (Search &#8220;Lax&#8221;), I presented evolution’s three collaborative yet contentious cooks—variation, selection, and retention—and assigned them nicknames that express their personalities: 1. Lax: Loose variation, going with the flow 2. Axe: Discerning selection, the cut that accepts some things and rejects others 3. Ox: Persistent retention, stubbornly asserting itself to do more of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Purpose: Mine and Evolution&#8217;s</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/should-i-commit/purpose/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/should-i-commit/purpose/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Mar 2006 14:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Is this worth fighting for?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Is this worth wondering about?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Should I stay?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I wait?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aboutness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Accept vs. Aspire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Decision making]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emergence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[functions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hierarchy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Information theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[intensions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[intentions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[purpose]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Romance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[telos]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/blog/?p=103</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I rarely mention where I go for Mind-reader&#8217;s ideas. Obviously the sources are eclectic. Now that I&#8217;m teaching Western Civilization part-time I&#8217;ll probably add the occasional historical tidbit to the philosophical ones that have crept in over the past year as I started teaching philosophy. But there is a core source. I&#8217;m an evolutionary epistemologist, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mother of All Questions: The sound of one world chanting &#8220;hmmm&#8230;?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-change-him/communication/mother-of-all-questions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-change-him/communication/mother-of-all-questions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2006 12:27:50 +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[Should I take what he said to heart?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Will it promote or discourage better behavior?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Accept vs. Aspire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crossroads]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deciding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Decision making]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fork]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[indecision]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paradoxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[wonder]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/blog/?p=85</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Most of the time we have answers enough—no questions on our minds. When a question crowds in, it&#8217;s usually some variation on or aspect of this one—the mother of all questions: WHAT CAN I DO WITH WHAT I&#8217;M DEALT TO GET TO THE GOOD? At first it reads as generic and bland. But notice all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plans, Expectations, Goals: Pegs for marking out paradoxical paths</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/business/plans-expectations-goals/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/business/plans-expectations-goals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2005 22:25:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Should I quit?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I reconsider?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I relax?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Should I take what he said to heart?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[What is my role here?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[writing on the wall]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last &#8220;Mind-Reader&#8217;s&#8221; was about floodlighting, a technique for overcoming both rashness and indecisiveness on soft decisions. Floodlighting is the alternative to spotlighting the options you&#8217;re for or against. To floodlight is to illuminate all the available options at once, that is, to explore your full decision space rather than swinging your spotlight from one isolated [...]]]></description>
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