Tag: problems and difficulties
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Why We Ignore Climate Change, Part 1
I’m going to spend the next few posts examining a précis I did of George Marshall’s book Don’t Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired To Ignore Climate Change (2014)[1]. Marshall has been a major figure in the international environmental movement, and his book seeks to answer the question of “why, when the…
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Anger #04 The Triune Brain
MacQuarrie Email Program #04 — How We Function: The Triune Brain Commentary: A huge advance in knowledge of the brain has occurred in the past century; it is astounding what we have learned. However, at the same time, we have learned relatively little about the mind. An assumption of the modern neurosciences is that…
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Anger #03 Awareness and Discipline
The tasks in this post: the development of awareness (task #1) and discipline (task #2). The work of change may seem massive, but really it’s just one step after another, and once you know the steps, you simply keep stepping (and find ways to keep yourself stable in the meantime). However, it is easy to…
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A Number of Interesting Articles
There have been a number of interesting articles have come across my desk in the past few months (some technological, one on civil disobedience), so I thought I would describe them briefly. I recommend that the interested reader explore them all from the original sources listed. First, some fascinating technological results: 20161128 A way to…
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Anger #02 What Is Anger?
This is the second of my email anger program so that the program is not lost. It is a duplicate of a previous sampler post of 20160809. This one is fairly long. Apologies. To begin: Are you still reading your outcome title (Email #01), at least once a day? If yes, great. Congratulations. If not, that is the difficulty of…
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Anger #01 Why Change? Personal Power
As indicated in the last post, I will gradually post my email anger program so that it is not lost. Although many people signed up initially, and feedback has been positive, there has been little in the way of continuing interest. Hence — this series of posts, one every few days until completion (30 emails) … I…