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word therapy

Healing oneself by working with words and letting them order and clarify the way one feels, thinks, and acts.

After a major television network offered to interview me, but then cancel the interview, lowered my self-concept, confused me, made me feel powerless—even helpless, but not hopeless.

Soon after I started to edit the index of a book I'm writing, working with words made me feel increasingly better.

Working with words balanced my emotions and allowed me to feel, think, and act correctly again. I call that word therapy.

by but for March 8, 2018

Concisionism

The ideology which advocates concise thought, analysis, speech, and/or writing and consumption.

Concisionism advocates articulating one's feelings, and thinking, analyzing, speaking, and/or writing concisely. Its adherents believe concision is so powerful that by applying it—especially at work—a nation's Gross Domestic Product will rise because workers and other professionals will communicate faster and more effectively, thereby boosting production. Another benefit of articulating things concisely is that trimming the fat from communication leaves people more time to live and that improves the quality of life and increases the amount of pleasure people can enjoy.

The members of think tanks wonder if communicating concisely would make consumers realize that they can live concisely and consume concisely, not needing to purchase unnecessary (really unneeded) products or services; be husky, plump, or obese; and stop over-consuming and also consume less.

by but for September 9, 2018

Laughaboutit

The wise, health-and-happiness-increasing philosophy encapsulated into one-word based on the belief that "bad things happen for a good reason," and advises everyone to laugh about things which happen, or about any other thing, instead of worrying and crying about them.

Seeing that society is at times drowning in the network of lies which systematically distort reality and transform many consumers into overconsuming but extremely happy overindulging zambies, Feelex Smart decided to follow aphorism writer Pro Fact's advise and laugh about it, instead of Ken Greenball's advice to react to things by saying, "Fuck it!" Pro Fact considerd condensing the term Laugh About It into one word—laughaboutit, but decided to make that transition in the future.

by but for October 25, 2017

improvable

A place or thing which can be improved, a person who is capable of improving themselves or is willing to listen to someone who wants to show them how to improve.

Eddie is not improvable, he doesn't even answer his Father's telephone calls or emails because he does not want to listen to his Father's advice. It seems he thinks he knows better.

by but for December 24, 2017

know more know better

The encapsulation of the fact that individuals who know more, make better decisions, and live better.

Know more know better is a great idiom. I tell it to my students to encourage them to study. Know more live better is an extension of that idea.

by but for September 25, 2018

Trial and Success

The positive and more success inducing way of saying "Trial and Error."

It is smarter to call "Trial and Error" "Trial and Success."

by but for October 29, 2017

Tonality Science

The scientific study of the tones individuals use to express a word.

Carlos was listening to Grand Funk Railroad play "The Loco-Motion" and was amazed by the singer's adroit use of tonality to each time he expressed a word or a few of them in succession convey a message or messages which were quite a little different, complimented, or reinforced the words he sang. He realized tonality was but has not been raised to the level of a science, and coined the term Tonality Science to go in that direction.

by but for October 25, 2017