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A method to make oneself aware of certain things one was not aware of until one began speaking to oneself or others (and preferably recorded what one said) about something (to be able to analyze it).
Speaking extemporaneously to myself and audio-recording it has helped me realize certain things I was not aware of until I said them. That process is called "speaking to discover".
by but for May 20, 2018
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Thoughts, actions, procedures, and mechanisms that study, find and disseminate ways to prevent pain, often by preventing a specific error from recurring. Conflict resolution is one of many pain prevention methods.
The fear of feeling pain, and the need to not feel it, move people to analyze errors to find error-preventing methods, procedures, and mechanisms.
The fear of feeling pain, and the need to not feel it, move people to analyze errors to find error-preventing methods, procedures, and mechanisms.

Pain prevention and error prevention engendered one another.

It is best to immediately find ways to prevent an error from recurring.
by but for January 28, 2021
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A funny way to call a teacher, instructor, or professor.
Charles Riddlesolver realized that a teacher is an ignorance reducer.
by but for December 24, 2017
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Extricating certain words, thoughts, beliefs, and expectations from one's brain and replacing them with other words, thoughts, beliefs, and/or expectations by writing them, reading them, recording them, playing them back, thinking about them and practicing them.
Reading numerous self-help books I realized that my beliefs and expectations were injected into me in various ways by different people since I was a child. Gradually, I realized that I could replace the negative words, thoughts, beliefs, and expectations with correct and better ones. I call that process self-brainwashing.
by but for February 20, 2018
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A marketing method that shifts the consumer's identity from the consumer to a product to get the consumer to buy it and love it.
Identity transference is a way that marketers distort reality by getting potential car buyers to come to feel that they can become the car they want to buy. After they buy it, they feel they are one with it, and happily spend money to maintain it in the best condition (sometimes better than themselves).
by but for January 18, 2021
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Miss McCallen receives mail and packages, and welcomes visitors to the company's headquarters, but as an experience "rejectionist" is also very good at preventing unwelcomed visitors from seeing the company's executives.
by but for December 6, 2017
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The way a human feels when his or her body is receptive to food.
Individuals are not always in the eating mode, they are not always receptive to food. For example, if something or someone frightens a person, they enter the flight or fight mode and their stomach, brain, and body will not want to eat any food. Interesting, it is that in the flight or fight mode, which most people call the "fight or flight" mode, I think I would be open to drinking, at least water, to be able to fight or run away better. Humans are not airplanes, it may be best to call it the "fight or run away (or flee mode)."
by but for February 5, 2018
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