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Get the Word Court mug.The unconscious reaction to big failures which reduces the intensity at which the individual perceives and experiences life.
After not getting elected to office plus other failures he experienced, including not finding his correct mate, Isitin Jones slid into a state of hypo-perception.
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Get the hypo-perception mug.Selecting words to express an idea in a positive way conscious that doing so will engender positive consequences.
The chairman of the board asked the speech writer to write the announcement using positive articulation instead of the negative articulation she,—for unexplained reasons—had used. The managers were surprised to see that she worded the announcement as she did, wondered if he was a saboteur, got her fired on-the-spot, and had a different writer write the speech.
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Get the Positive Articulation mug.Hiding or depriving individuals or groups of people of facts to keep them ignorant and powerless. Individuals and organizations do that to protect themselves, to monopolize power, or to more easily take advantage of others.
I think it's safe to say that at some point and to varying degrees everybody practices information deprivation against those they interact with in order to trick them.
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Get the Thought Mapping mug."Know more know better" is a great idiom. I tell it to my students to encourage them to study. "Know more to live better" is a counterpart.
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