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In his paper of 1943, A Theory of Human Motivation, psychologist Abraham Maslow proposed that healthy human beings had a certain number of needs, and that these needs are arranged in a hierarchy, with some needs (such as physiological and safety needs) being more primitive or basic than others (such as social and ego needs). Maslow's so-called 'hierarchy of needs' is often presented as a five-level pyramid, with higher needs coming into focus only once lower, more basic needs have been met.
Maslow called the bottom four levels of the pyramid 'deficiency needs' because we do not feel anything if they are met, but become anxious or distressed if they are not. Thus, physiological needs such as eating, drinking, and sleeping are deficiency needs, as are safety needs, social needs such as friendship and sexual intimacy, and ego needs such as self-esteem and recognition. On the other hand, he called the fifth, top level of the pyramid a 'growth need' because our need to self-actualize enables us to fulfill our true and highest potential as human beings.
Once we have met our deficiency needs, the focus of our anxiety shifts to self-actualization, and we begin, even if only at a sub- or semi-conscious level, to contemplate our bigger picture. However, only a small minority of people is able to self- actualize because self-actualization requires uncommon qualities such as honesty, independence, awareness, objectivity, creativity, and originality.
Maslow's hierarchy of needs has been criticized for being overly schematic and lacking in scientific grounding, but it presents an intuitive and potentially useful theory of human motivation. After all, there is surely some truth in the popular saying that one cannot philosophize on an empty stomach, or in Aristotle's observation that, 'all paid work absorbs and degrades the mind'.
Many people who have met all their deficiency needs do not self-actualize, instead inventing more deficiency needs for themselves, because to contemplate the meaning of their life and of life in general would lead them to entertain the possibility of their meaninglessness and the prospect of their own death and annihilation.
A person who begins to contemplate his bigger picture may come to fear that life is meaningless and death inevitable, but at the same time cling on to the cherished belief that his life is eternal or important or at least significant. This gives rise to an inner conflict that is sometimes referred to as 'existential anxiety' or, more colourfully, 'the trauma of non-being'.
While fear and anxiety and their pathological forms (such as agoraphobia, panic disorder, or PTSD) are grounded in threats to life, existential anxiety is rooted in the brevity and apparent meaninglessness or absurdity of life. Existential anxiety is so disturbing and unsettling that most people avoid it at all costs, constructing a false reality out of goals, ambitions, habits, customs, values, culture, and religion so as to deceive themselves that their lives are special and meaningful and that death is distant or delusory.
However, such self-deception comes at a heavy price. According to Jean-Paul Sartre, people who refuse to face up to 'non-being' are acting in 'bad faith', and living out a life that is inauthentic and unfulfilling. Facing up to non-being can bring insecurity, loneliness, responsibility, and consequently anxiety, but it can also bring a sense of calm, freedom, and even nobility. Far from being pathological, existential anxiety is a sign of health, strength, and courage, and a harbinger of bigger and better things to come.
For theologian Paul Tillich (1886-1965), refusing to face up to non-being leads not only to a life that is inauthentic but also to pathological (or neurotic) anxiety.
In The Courage to Be, Tillich asserts:
He who does not succeed in taking his anxiety courageously upon himself can succeed in avoiding the extreme situation of despair by escaping into neurosis. He still affirms himself but on a limited scale. Neurosis is the way of avoiding nonbeing by avoiding being.
According to this outlook, pathological anxiety, though seemingly grounded in threats to life, in fact arises from repressed existential anxiety, which itself arises from our uniquely human capacity for self-consciousness.
Facing up to non-being enables us to put our life into perspective, see it in its entirety, and thereby lend it a sense of direction and unity. If the ultimate source of anxiety is fear of the future, the future ends in death; and if the ultimate source of anxiety is uncertainty, death is the only certainty. It is only by facing up to death, accepting its inevitability, and integrating it into life that we can escape from the pettiness and paralysis of anxiety, and, in so doing, free ourselves to make the most out of our lives and out of ourselves.
Adapted from the new edition of The Meaning of Madness
The Psychology of Self-Deception
04 Sep 2015 Leave a comment
A short, sharp look into some of our most important ego defenses.
In psychoanalytic theory, ego defenses are unconscious processes that we deploy to diffuse the fear and anxiety that arise when who we think we are or who we think we should be (our conscious 'superego') comes into conflict with who we really are (our unconscious 'id').
For instance, at an unconscious level a man may find himself attracted to another man, but at a conscious level he may find this attraction flatly unacceptable. To diffuse the anxiety that arises from this conflict, he may deploy one or several ego defenses. For example, (1) he might refuse to admit to himself that he is attracted to this man. Or (2) he might superficially adopt ideas and behaviours that are diametrically opposed to those of a stereotypical homosexual, such as going out for several pints with the lads, banging his fists on the counter, and peppering his speech with loud profanities. Or (3) he might transfer his attraction onto someone else and then berate him for being gay (young children can teach us much through playground retorts such as 'mirror, mirror' and 'what you say is what you are'). In each case, the man has used a common ego defense, respectively, repression, reaction formation, and projection.
Repression can be thought of as 'motivated forgetting': the active, albeit unconscious, 'forgetting' of unacceptable drives, emotions, ideas, or memories. Repression is often confused with denial, which is the refusal to admit to certain unacceptable or unmanageable aspects of reality. Whereas repression relates to mental or internal stimuli, denial relates to external stimuli. That said, repression and denial often work together, and can be difficult to disentangle.
Repression can also be confused with distortion, which is the reshaping of reality to suit one's inner needs. For instance, a person who has been beaten black and blue by his father no longer recalls these traumatic events (repression), and instead sees his father as a gentle and loving man (distortion). In this example, there is a clear sense of the distortion not only building upon but also reinforcing the repression.
Reaction formation is the superficial adoption—and, often, exaggeration—of emotions and impulses that are diametrically opposed to one's own. A possible high-profile case of reaction formation is that of a particular US congressman, who, as chairman of the Missing and Exploited Children's Caucus, introduced legislation to protect children from exploitation by adults over the Internet. The congressman resigned when it later emerged that he had been exchanging sexually explicit electronic messages with a teenage boy. Other, classic, examples of reaction formation include the alcoholic who extolls the virtues of abstinence and the rich student who attends and even organizes anti-capitalist rallies.
Projection is the attribution of one's unacceptable thoughts and feelings to others. Like distortion, projection necessarily involves repression as a first step, since unacceptable thoughts and feelings need to be repudiated before they can be attributed to others. Classic examples of projection include the envious person who believes that everyone envies him, the covetous person who lives in constant fear of being dispossessed, and the person with fantasies of infidelity who suspects that his partner is cheating on him.
Just as common is splitting, which can be defined as the division or polarization of beliefs, actions, objects, or people into good and bad by selectively focusing on either their positive or negative attributes. This is often seen in politics, for instance, when left-wingers caricature right-wingers as selfish and narrow-minded, and right-wingers caricature left-wingers as irresponsible and self-serving hypocrites. Other classic examples of splitting are the religious zealot who divides people into blessed and damned, and the child of divorcees who idolizes one parent while shunning the other. Splitting diffuses the anxiety that arises from our inability to grasp a complex and nuanced state of affairs by simplifying and schematizing it so that it can more readily be processed or accepted.
Splitting also arises in groups, with people inside the group being seen in a positive light, and people outside the group in a negative light. Another phenomenon that occurs in groups is groupthink, which is not strictly speaking an ego defense, but which is so important as to be worthy of mention. Groupthink arises when members of a group unconsciously seek to minimize conflict by failing to critically test, analyse, and evaluate ideas. As a result, decisions reached by the group tend to be more irrational than those that would have been reached by any one member of the group acting alone. Even married couples can fall into groupthink, for instance, when they decide to take their holidays in places that neither wanted, but thought that the other wanted. Groupthink arises because members of a group are afraid both of criticizing and of being criticized, and also because of the hubristic sense of confidence and invulnerability that arises from being in a group. Philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein once remarked, 'It is a good thing that I did not let myself be influenced.' In a similar vein, historian Edward Gibbon wrote that '…solitude is the school of genius … and the uniformity of a work denotes the hand of a single artist'. In short, a camel is a horse designed by a committee.
An ego defense similar to splitting is idealization. Like the positive end of splitting, idealization involves overestimating the positive attributes of a person, object, or idea while underestimating its negative attributes. More fundamentally, it involves the projection of our needs and desires onto that person, object, or idea. A paradigm of idealization is infatuation, when love is confused with the need to love, and the idealized person's negative attributes are glossed over or even imagined as positive. Although this can make for a rude awakening, there are few better ways of relieving our existential anxiety than by manufacturing something that is 'perfect' for us, be it a piece of equipment, a place, country, person, or god.
If in love with someone inaccessible, it might be more convenient to intellectualize our love, perhaps by thinking of it in terms of idealization! In intellectualization, uncomfortable feelings associated with a problem are repressed by thinking about the problem in cold and abstract terms. I once received a phone call from a junior doctor in psychiatry in which he described a recent in-patient admission as 'a 47-year-old mother of two who attempted to cessate her life as a result of being diagnosed with a metastatic mitotic lesion'. A formulation such as '…who tried to kill herself after being told that she is dying of cancer' would have been better English, but all too effective at evoking the full horror of this poor lady's predicament.
Intellectualization should not be confused with rationalization, which is the use of feeble but seemingly plausible arguments either to justify something that is painful to accept ('sour grapes') or to make it seem 'not so bad after all' ('sweet lemons'). For instance, a person who has been rejected by a love interest convinces himself that she rejected him because she did not share in his ideal of happiness (sour grapes), and also that her rejection is a blessing in disguise in that it has freed him to find a more suitable partner (sweet lemons).
While no one can altogether avoid deploying ego defenses, some ego defenses are thought to be more 'mature' than others, not only because they involve some degree of insight, but also because they can be adaptive or useful. If a person is angry at his boss, he may go home and kick the dog, or he may instead go out and play a good game of tennis. The first instance (kicking the dog) is an example of displacement, the redirection of uncomfortable feelings towards someone or something less important, which is an immature ego defense. The second instance (playing a good game of tennis) is an example of sublimation, the channelling of uncomfortable feelings into socially condoned and often productive activities, which is a much more mature ego defense.
There are a number of mature ego defenses like sublimation that can be substituted for the more primitive ones. Altruism, for instance, can in some cases be a form of sublimation in which a person copes with his anxiety by stepping outside himself and helping others. By concentrating on the needs of others, people in altruistic vocations such as medicine or teaching may be able to permanently push their own needs into the background. Conversely, people who care for a disabled or elderly person may experience profound anxiety and distress when this role is suddenly removed from them.
Another mature ego defense is humour. By seeing the absurd or ridiculous aspect of an emotion, event, or situation, a person is able to put it into a less threatening context and thereby diffuse the anxiety that it gives rise to. In addition, he is able to share, and test, his insight with others in the benign and gratifying form of a joke. If man laughs so much, it is no doubt because he has the most developed unconscious in the animal kingdom. The things that people laugh about most are their errors and inadequacies; the difficult challenges that they face around personal identity, social standing, sexual relationships, and death; and incongruity, absurdity, and meaninglessness. These are all deeply human concerns: just as no one has ever seen a laughing dog, so no one has ever heard of a laughing god.
Further up the maturity scale is asceticism, which is the denial of the importance of that which most people fear or strive for, and so of the very grounds for anxiety and disappointment. If fear is, ultimately, for oneself, then the denial of the self removes the very grounds for fear. People in modern societies are more anxious than people in traditional or historical societies, no doubt because of the strong emphasis that modern societies place on the self as an independent and autonomous agent.
In the Hindu Bhagavad Gita, the god Krishna appears to Arjuna in the midst of the Battle of Kurukshetra, and advises him not to succumb to his scruples but to do his duty and fight on. In either case, all the men on the battlefield are one day condemned to die, as are all men. Their deaths are trivial, because the spirit in them, their human essence, does not depend on their particular incarnations for its continued existence. Krishna says, 'When one sees eternity in things that pass away and infinity in finite things, then one has pure knowledge.'
There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist … the wise are not deluded by these changes.
There are a great number of ego defenses, and the combinations and circumstances in which we use them reflect on our personality. Indeed, one could go so far as to argue that the self is nothing but the sum of its ego defenses, which are constantly shaping, upholding, protecting, and repairing it.
The self is like a cracked mask that is in constant need of being pieced together. But behind the mask there is nobody at home.
While we cannot entirely escape from ego defenses, we can gain some insight into how we use them. This self-knowledge, if we have the courage for it, can awaken us to ourselves, to others, and to the world around us, and free us to express our full potential as human beings.
The greatest oracle of the ancient world was the oracle at Delphi, and inscribed on the forecourt of the temple of Apollo at Delphi was a simple two-word command:
Γνῶθι σεαυτόν
Know thyself.
Adapted from Hide and Seek: The Psychology of Self-Deception.
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Can Personality Disorder be Good for You?
30 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
While personality disorders may lead to 'severe impairment', they may also lead to extraordinary achievement. A 2005 study by Board and Fritzon found that histrionic, narcissistic, and anankastic personality disorders are more common in high-level executives than in mentally disordered criminal offenders at the high security Broadmoor Hospital.
This suggests that people often benefit from non-normative and potentially maladaptive personality traits. For instance, people with histrionic personality disorder may be more adept at charming and cajoling others, and therefore at building and exercising professional relationships. People with narcissistic personality disorder may be highly ambitious, confident, and self-motivated, and able to employ people and situations to maximum advantage. And people with anankastic personality disorder may get quite far up their career ladder simply by being so devoted to work and productivity. Even people with borderline personality disorder may at times be bright, witty, and the life and soul of the party.
In their study, Board and Fritzon described the executives with a personality disorder as 'successful psychopaths' and the criminal offenders as 'unsuccessful psychopaths', and it may be that highly successful people and disturbed psychopaths have more in common than first meets the eye. As psychologist and philosopher William James put it, 'When a superior intellect and a psychopathic temperament coalesce… in the same individual, we have the best possible condition for the kind of effective genius that gets into the biographical dictionaries.'
More recently, in 2010, Mullins-Sweatt and her colleagues carried out a study to uncover how successful psychopaths differ from unsuccessful ones. They asked a number of members of Division 41 (psychology and law) of the American Psychological Association, professors of clinical psychology, and criminal attorneys to first identify, and then to rate and describe, one of their acquaintances (if any) who could be counted as successful and who also conformed to psychologist Robert Hare's definition of a psychopath:
…social predators who charm, manipulate and ruthlessly plow their way through life … Completely lacking in conscience and feeling for others, they selfishly take what they want and do as they please, violating social norms and expectations without the slightest sense of guilt or regret.
From the responses they collated, Mullins-Sweatt and her team found that successful psychopaths matched unsuccessful ones in all respects but one, namely, conscientiousness. So it seems that the key difference between unsuccessful and successful psychopaths is that the former behave impulsively and irresponsibly, whereas the latter are able to inhibit or restrain those destructive tendencies and build for the future.
Intelligence and conscientiousness are not enough to guarantee success, which also requires traits such as ambition, motivation, and people skills—traits that may be particularly pronounced when rooted in a personality disorder.
Personality disorders are generally thought to arise from a combination genetic factors and traumatic early life experiences such as parental loss and emotional, physical, and sexual abuse. People who have suffered childhood trauma may be left with intense feelings of despair, helplessness, and worthlessness. Later in life, they may seek out achievement and success to help compensate for these feelings. For instance, they may wish to be recognized by strangers because they were not recognized by their own parents, or they may wish to have control over others because they had none when they needed it most. The drive for achievement and success combined with the character traits and resilience that arise from loss and trauma may in later life propel them to the highest echelons of society.
This is borne out by a large study that looked at almost 700 eminent personalities, and found that 45 per cent had lost a parent before the age of 21. This 'orphanhood effect' seems particularly marked in creative people. One study looking specifically at a sample of authors found that 55 per cent had lost a parent before the age of 15. This suggests that disturbed psychopaths and creative visionaries do indeed share many features. While the former suffer from them, the latter are (also) able to put them to good use.
Broadly speaking, anyone's personality can be said to lead to distress and impairment. For instance, a gregarious student is unable to isolate himself in the library and ends up failing his exams. A zealous company director loses his temper and regrets the damage that he has done to himself, others, and his company. An upstanding whistleblower ends up losing his job.
Everyone suffers for who he is, and, very often, our greatest strength is also the germ of our deepest suffering. While it is impossible to avoid such suffering, it is at least possible to value it for the personal growth that it can bring.
Like many blind figures in classical mythology, the prophet Teiresias could 'see' into himself. This self-knowledge enabled him not only to understand himself, but also to understand others and so to 'see into the future'. Similarly, our suffering prompts us to look into ourselves. The self-knowledge this brings enables us not only to better regulate ourselves, but also to better appreciate others, the world, and our place within it. Thus, our suffering transforms our lives into a journey, a journey without an end, perhaps, but one that can also be seen as an end-in-itself. It is in this way that our suffering, or 'impairment', can bring deep meaning to our lives.
Adapted from the new edition of The Meaning of Madness.
Board BJ and Fritzon KF (2005): Disordered personalities at work. Psychology, Crime and Law 11:17-23.
James W (1902): The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lecture 1 'Religion and Neurology', Footnote 6.
Mullins-Sweat S et al. (2010): The Search for the Successful Psychopath. Journal of Research in Personality 44:554-558.
Hare RD (1998): Without Conscience: The disturbing world of the psychopaths among us, opening lines. Guilford Press.
Psychiatry in Crisis
19 Aug 2015 2 Comments
in Philosophy, Psychiatry/psychology
Is the medical model still helping?
In the UK, mental ill healthis recognized as the single largest cause of disability, contributing almost 23 per cent of the disease burden and costing over £100 billion ($157 billion) a year in services, lost productivity, and reduced quality of life. Every year in the EU, about 27 per cent of adults are affected by mental disorder of some kind. In the US, almost one in two people will meet the criteria for a mental disorder in the course of their lifetime. Data from the US National Health Interview Survey indicate that, in 2012, 13.5% of boys aged 3-17 had been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), up from just 8.3% in 1997.
There is no denying that a lot of people are suffering. But are they all really suffering from a mental disorder, that is, a medical illness, a biological disorder of the brain? And if not, are doctors, diagnoses, and drugs necessarily the best response to their problems?
Since 1952, the number of diagnosable mental disorders has burgeoned from 106 to over 300, and now includes such constructs as 'gambling disorder', 'minor neurocognitive disorder', 'disruptive mood dysregulation disorder', 'premenstrual dysphoric disorder', and 'binge-eating disorder'.
According to a recent report, antidepressant prescriptions in England rose from 15 million items in 1998 to 40 million in 2012, this despite the mounting evidence for their ineffectiveness. Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) in particular have become something of a panacea, used not only to treat depression, but also to treat anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and bulimia nervosa, and even some physical disorders such as premature ejaculation in young men and hot flushes in menopausal women. In the UK, the SSRI fluoxetine is so commonly prescribed that trace quantities have been detected in the water supply.
But despite all this apparent progress in diagnosis and treatment, people who meet the diagnostic criteria for such a paradigmatic mental disorder as schizophrenia tend to fare better in resource-poor countries, where human distress can take on very different forms and interpretations to those outlined in our scientifical classifications.
Psychiatry is in a crisis precipitated by its own success, and, assuming that it once did, the medical or biological model is no longer helping. The specialty of the heart is cardiology, the specialty of the digestive tract is gastroenterology, and the specialty of the brain is neurology and psychiatry. But neurology is not psychiatry, which literally means 'healing of the soul'.
Some mental disorders undeniably have a strong biological basis, but even these have many more aspects and dimensions than 'mere' physical disorders.
It is high time to fundamentally rethink our approach to mental disorders and mental 'dis-ease'.
The Second Edition of The Meaning of Madness, due out in September, is available for pre-order.
Major Prize for 'Concise Guide to Wine and Blind Tasting'
23 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in Wine
My co-author James Flewellen and I were honoured a few months ago when our 'textbook of wine' won 'Best in the UK' in the the drinks education category of the prestigious Gourmand Awards.
All the national winners entered the final, which was held this month in Yantai, China, and we are delighted to announce that our title won 'Best in the World – 2nd place'.
For several years, James and I were heavily involved in the popular Oxford University Blind Tasting Society. James presided over the society and led the university blind tasting team to victory in several international competitions. We wrote 'The Concise Guide to Wine and Blind Tasting' to crystallise the knowledge and expertise that we had acquired and share our passion with a wider audience.
The book was published in March last year, and soon began receiving rave reviews, including, to our astonishment, from the Times Literary Supplement, which dubbed it 'a comprehensive education in wine'. It also gathered a strong following among people studying for wine qualifications, not least the highly-regarded wine degree at Plumpton College.
The book aims to provide readers, including novices, with a strong foundation in wine, which they can then build upon with their own, unique tasting experiences. Although all the major wine styles and regions are covered, the emphasis is firmly on blind tasting, which, by removing unconscious bias and suggestion (from the price, from the label, and so on), sets a standard of objectivity in wine.
Aside from this, there is much pleasure to be taken from the process of blind tasting, in:
- Testing, stretching, and developing our senses
- Applying our judgement
- Relying upon and recalling old memories
- Comparing our analysis with that of our peers
- Getting it more or less right (or 'wrong for the right reasons')
- Discussing the wine and learning about it, and about wine in general
- Imbibing the wine with the respect and consideration that it deserves.
In refining their senses and aesthetic judgement, blind tasters become much more conscious of the richness not only of wine but also of other potentially complex beverages such as tea, coffee, and spirits, and, by extension, the flavours in food, the scents in the air, and the play of light in the world. For life is consciousness, and consciousness is life.
Laziness Vs Procrastination Vs Idleness
31 May 2015 Leave a comment
in Philosophy, Psychiatry/psychology
We are being lazy if we are able to carry out some activity that we ought to carry out, but are disinclined to do so on account of the effort involved. Instead, we remain idle, carry out the activity perfunctorily, or engage in some other less strenuous or boring activity. In short, we are being lazy if our motivation to spare ourselves effort trumps our motivation to do the right or best or expected thing—assuming, of course, that we know, or think that we know, what that is.
Synonyms for laziness include indolence and sloth. Indolence derives from the Latin indolentia, 'without pain' or 'without taking trouble'. Sloth has more moral and spiritual overtones than either laziness or indolence. In the Christian tradition, sloth is one of the seven deadly sins (the other six being lust, gluttony, greed, wrath, envy, and pride) because it undermines society and God's plan and invites all manner of sin. The Bible inveighs against slothfulness, notably in the Book of Ecclesiastes: 'By much slothfulness the building decayeth; and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through. A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things.'
Laziness should not be confused with either procrastination or idleness. To procrastinate—from the Latin cras, 'tomorrow'—is to postpone one task in favour of another or others which are perceived as being easier or more pleasurable but which are typically less important or urgent. To postpone a task for constructive or strategic purposes does not amount to procrastination. For a postponement to amount to procrastination, it has to represent poor or ineffective planning and result in a higher overall cost to the procrastinator, for example, in the form of stress, guilt, lost productivity, or lost opportunities. It is one thing to delay a tax return until all the numbers are in, but quite another to delay it so that it upsets our holiday plans and lands us with a fine. Both the lazybones and the procrastinator lack motivation, but unlike the lazybones the procrastinator aspires and intends to complete the task under consideration, and, moreover, eventually does complete it, albeit at a higher cost to himself.
To be idle is, not to be doing anything. Idleness is often romanticized, as epitomized by the Italian expression dolce far niente ('it is sweet to do nothing'). Many people tell themselves that they work hard from a desire for idleness. But although our natural instinct is for idleness, most of us find prolonged idleness difficult to bear. Queuing for half an hour in a traffic jam can leave us feeling bored, restless, and irritable, and many motorists prefer to make a detour even if the alternative route is likely to take longer than sitting through the traffic. Recent research suggests that people will find the flimsiest excuse to keep busy, and that they feel happier for keeping busy even when their busyness is imposed upon them. In their research paper (Hsee CK et al. (2010), Idleness aversion and the need for justifiable busyness. Psychological Science 21(7): 926–930.), Christopher Hsee and his colleagues surmise that many of our purported goals may be little more than justifications for keeping busy.
We could be idle because we have nothing to do—or rather, because we lack the imagination to think of something to do. If we do evidently have something to do, we could be idle because we are lazy, but also because we are unable to do that thing, or because we have already done it and are resting and recuperating. Lastly, we could be idle because we value idleness or its products above whatever it is we have to do, which is not the same thing as being lazy. Lord Melbourne, Queen Victoria's favourite prime minister, extolled the virtues of 'masterful inactivity'. As chairman and CEO of General Electric, Jack Welch spent an hour each day in what he called 'looking out of the window time'. Adepts of such strategic idleness use their 'idle' moments, among others, to gather inspiration, develop and maintain perspective, sidestep nonsense and pettiness, reduce inefficiency and half-living, and conserve health and stamina for truly important tasks and problems. 'To do nothing at all,' said Oscar Wilde, 'is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.'
Adapted from Heaven and Hell: The Psychology of the Emotions.
Why Patience is Power
22 May 2015 1 Comment
in Philosophy
Patience can be regarded as a decision-making problem: eat up all the grain today or plant it in the earth and wait for it to multiply. Unfortunately, human beings evolved not as farmers but as hunter-gatherers, and have a strong tendency to discount long-term rewards. Our ancestral shortsightedness is borne out by the Stanford marshmallow experiment, a series of studies on delayed gratification led by Walter Mischel in the late 1960s and early 1970s. These studies, conducted on hundreds of mostly four- and five-year old children, involved a simple binary choice: either eat this marshmallow, or hold back for 15 minutes and be given a second marshmallow. Having explained this choice to a child, the experimenter left him alone with the marshmallow for 15 minutes. Follow-up studies carried out over 40 years found that the minority of children who had been able to hold out for a second marshmallow went on to enjoy significantly better life outcomes, including higher test scores, better social skills, and less substance misuse.
Even so, patience involves much more than the mere ability to hold back for some future gain. Exercising patience (note the use of the verb 'to exercise') can be compared to dieting or growing a garden. Yes, waiting is involved, but one also needs to have a plan in place, and, moreover, to work at that plan. Thus, when it comes to others, patience does not amount to mere restraint or toleration, but to a complicit engagement in their struggle and welfare. In that much, patience is a form of compassion, which, rather than disregarding and alienating people, turns them into friends and allies.
If impatience implies impotence, patience implies power, power born out of understanding. Rather than make us into a hostage to fortune, patience frees us from frustration and its ills, delivers us to the present moment, and affords us the calm and perspective to think, say, and do the right thing in the right way at the right time—which is why, with psychotherapy, both patient and therapist can require several years together. Last but not least, patience enables us to achieve things that would otherwise have been impossible to achieve. As La Bruyère put it, 'There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honours too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.' Exercising patience does not mean never protesting or giving up, but only ever doing so in a considered fashion: never impetuously, never pettily, and never pointlessly. Neither does it mean withholding, just like ageing a case of fine wine for several years does not mean withholding from wine during all that time. Life is too short to wait, but it is not too short for patience.
Patience is much easier, perhaps even pleasant, to exercise if one truly understands that it can and does deliver much better outcomes, not just for ourselves but for others too. In 2012, researchers at the University of Rochester replicated the marshmallow experiment. However, before doing so, they split the participating children into two groups, exposing one group to unreliable experiences in the form of broken promises, and the other to reliable experiences in the form of honoured promises. They subsequently found that the children exposed to honoured promises waited an average of four times longer than the children exposed to broken promises.
In other words, patience is largely a matter of trust, or, some might say, faith.
Mischel W et al. (1972): Cognitive and attentional mechanisms in delay of gratification. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 21(2): 204–218.
J de la Bruyère (1688), Les Caractères, Des jugements, aphorism 108.
Kidd C et al. (2013): Rational snacking: Young children's decision-making on the marshmallow task is moderated by beliefs about environmental reliability. Cognition 126(1):109–114.
Adapted from Heaven and Hell: The Psychology of the Emotions.


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Celebrate The Diversity Of The Olive At The Olive Festival!
The 6th Annual Orinda Olive Festival is the perfect way to enjoy the cool fall weather. Olive oil is a staple of almost any meal, which is why we want to celebrate the provider of the liquid – the olive! The 6th Annual Orinda Olive Festival is taking place on Sunday, October 4th from 11:30
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For external use only. When using this product keep out of eyes. Rinse with water to remove. Stop use and ask doctor if rash or irritation develops and lasts. Keep out of reach of children. If swallowed, get medical help or contact a Poison Control Center right away. Sun protection measures: Spending time in the sun increases your risk of skin cancer and early skin aging. To decrease this risk, regularly use a sunscreen with a Broad Spectrum SPF value of 15 or higher and other sun protection measures including: limit time in the sun, especially from 10 a.m. -2 p.m. and wear long-sleeved shirts, pants, hats and sunglasses. Children under 6 months: Ask a doctor. For use on skin only.
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Comments about Aubrey Organics Natural Sun Sunscreen SPF 30+, Green Tea, 4 fl oz:
I did not burn with this on, but I did not like how sticky it was; my hair kept getting stuck to my cheeks. Rubbing it into my arms was difficult, and I couldn't tell if my skin was red and warm because I rubbed so hard trying to apply it or because I was having a reaction. I realized I disliked this so much, that I wasn't wearing it at all, prefering to just burn.
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This product works well (as with all sunscreens, be careful to apply regularly) but is difficult to rub in and my daughter and I were not fans of the smell.
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I bought this because it was recommended to be safe due to its healthy ingredients (and lack of harmful ingredients). I first purchased Badger which I found to be way too thick and super greasy. This is neither of those things!! At first when you put it on it might feel like regular lotion, but it sinks in and does not shine. I even use it on my face when I workout outside. It is thin like a lotion and is almost a light tan/grey color due to its ingredients. I love that it sinks in so it doesn't leave a white residue or shine. It has been effective during sweaty workouts so I just purchased two more! As a fair skinned Irish person with a history of pre-cancer cells, let me tell you I have tried almost every lotion out there and this one is my go-to from now on!
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Upgrade your computer with the freedom and reliability of Wireless-N. Just plug the USB Adapter into your computer to wirelessly connect to your network. With transfer rates up to 300 Mbps youll enjoy a powerful networking experience for surfing, chatting, sharing or playing online. Built with leading 802.11n wireless technology, the Linksys AE1200 offers expanded coverage and reliability. MIMO (multiple input multiple output) antennas boost signal strength so you can stay connected whether at home or at Wi-Fi hotspots on the go. Keep Wi-Fi freeloaders and Internet threats at bay with the latest in WPA2 security to help keep your network protected. The included setup wizard installs your adapter quickly and makes going wireless easy.
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BDR, What are the positives in general and relative to competition of BDR?Are any of the products unique - patented?Is education and distribution superior?Are all the products priced above/below the competition?Is BDR keeping up with the new technologies (leader or follower)?What industries use the products, how does the industry BDR cater to perceive it?Thanks in Advance For Your Comments!
Avoid this stock for now.Put in the symbol BDR and find out why it isn't going higher anytime soon: http://snurl.com/oweoxBtw, they even talk about the next Microsoft - must read.
The positives are the quarterly report that just came up. Profitable AND selling SUBSTANTIALLY under tangible book AND positive outlook going forward. Find me another tech company like that -- I know of only one, Blonder Tongue (BDR).
Report shows a loss...NOT profitable...Where do you see "profitable"????Will drop after pr is older.
"Find me another tech company like that -- I know of only one, Blonder Tongue (BDR)."Can't find another tech company but take a look at a great little counter cyclical company trading at a PE of under 3, DIT.
Undervalued?, you decide. Cash value + receivables > Market Cap.
Chairman FINALLY after many years has stopped automatic stock sales.Director buying.BIG backlog as reported last cc.Super cheap stock valuation on a tangible asset / stockholder's equity basis.No reason why this stock can be a 5-bagger in very little time if the next quarter or two pan out as management hinted in their cc.
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I have two white male pure breed puggs for sale. They are currently 5 weeks old. Asking $1,500 each pickup only
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English Bull Terrier Female - 9 weeks old
Adorable 2 month old puppy for sale, comes with first vaccine and is dewormed.
Thank you for looking, you may email and/or reach me at my Cell phone number 917-780-8717.
We are Located in Queens New York.
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ICCF Cane Corso pups for sale. Docked Tails, initial shots given and dewormed.
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2 females/3 males. All are active & healthy. Call now and get your pick. Joe at 516-205-8564.
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BLUE French Bulldog Puppy-11 Weeks Old
Blue male french bulldog puppy available from european bloodline. Puppy is 11 weeks old has all his shots up to date,is micro chipped and comes with health certificate and health guarantee. Referencies available and PayPal accepted!!
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Choco Fawn Female French Bulldog puppy available from excellent european bloodline. She has all her shots,is micro chipped and comes with health certificate and guarantee. We have lots of referencees in NY and NJ area. We accept PayPal!!!
Friendly chunky amstaff Remy in danger@NYC kill shelter-owner evicted
Meet Remy! Remy is thought to be approximately 10yr old. She was surrendered along with another dog, Sasha, when their caregivers were evicted from their home. Sasha and Remy did get into an altercation before coming to the shelter.
Remy has a swelling in her abdomen, her exam notes state she may be pregnant but due to her age it is unclear-she should see a vet for better determination ...
Gentle friendly amstaff Flint in danger@Brooklyn kill shelter
Flint came in as a stray, so her past behaviors in a home are unknown. During her evaluation Flint came into the assessment room loose and wiggly, she was sweet and friendly towards the assessor, allowed some handling items to be conducted without issue. Paw squeeze and tag was not conducted as this time due to medical condition (swollen right rear foot), and during the resources portion of ...
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Beautiful playful amstaff Nena in danger@NYC kill shelter
A volunteer writes: This girl has the moves! She's a chunky mama, fed a little too well, but she can still bounce, jump and play with the best of them! Pleasantly plump suits her, her tail wags, eyes sparkle, and she chases after a ball, jumps up on the bench and just has the best time! If I don't throw the ball fast enough I get a quick 'woof' to let me know she's waiting and off she goes, ...
Shih Tzu pups!
Super cute and friendly little Shih Tzu pups! I have two boys available, one is tan and white, he is 14 weeks old and will be about 7lbs full grown, he is $650.
The other boy is 9 weeks old, he is black and white with one blue eye and one brown eye! He will be about 12lbs full grown and he is $750.
Both boys come with their registration papers, shots and worming up to date, and a written ...
Morkie pups!
Adorable maltese and yorkie mix pups, a.k.a. Morkie! I have both boys and girls available, both tan and black/tan, they are 9 weeks old and ready to go to their new homes. Each puppy comes with all of their shots and worming up to date, a written health guarantee, and a training tips packet. Morkies are nonshedding and hypoallergenic and will be about 6-8lbs full grown. Call 347-553-0387
Labrador Retrievers
Absolutely stunning black puppies, ch bloodlines, amazing temperaments! Pass the pet store and come see my gorgeous litter. Home bred, both parents on premises. Thank you!
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Adorable toy poodle pup!
Adorable toy poodle pup ready for adoption, Reggie is 8 weeks old and comes with his shots and worming all up to date, his ACA registration papers, a written health guarantee, and a training tips packet. He will be about 8lbs full grown and he is nonshedding and hypoallergenic. Call 347-553-0387
Gorgeous FrenchPug
I have a gorgeous French Pug puppy I have to rehome she is tiny and gorgeous has her shots and dewormings 8 weeks old, Contact for pics must pick up thank you .
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Gentle affectionate amstaff Baby in danger@Brooklyn kill shelter
A volunteer writes: I'm sure I would've never thought it if she had a different name, but Baby's adorable face sometimes reminds me of Baby Sinclair! You know that bratty little baby from the TV show Dinosaurs with the "gotta love me!" catchphrase? Well, this Baby won't have to say anything to make you love her! I happened to be there when she arrived and even the driver that transported her ...
Sweet adorable 12mo old amstaff Ciaro in danger@Brooklyn kill shelter
A volunteer writes: Ciaro is simply brindlicous!!! Ciaro has a very unique white tip on his tail making him even more adorable!!! Ciaro walks pretty well on leash (he only pulls a bit) and was so proud to show me he knew how to sit. Ciaro loves to give kisses in return for being petted. He is really a very sweet puppy. Ciaro seemed to like the other dogs he encountered at the shelter and is ...
Friendly playful amstaff Cash in danger@Brooklyn kill shelter
Cash came in as a stray, so his past behaviors in a home are unknown. During his evaluation Cash came into the assessment room loose and wiggly, he was friendly and very playful towards the assessor, allowed all handling items to be conducted without issue. Cash joins the game during the tag interaction, and during the resources portion of the assessment Cash was easy to handle when engaged ...
Gorgeous LONG COATED GERMAN SHEPHERD PUPS FOR SALE
Long Coated, Black & Red German Shepherd Pups. Will be ready on October 24th, 2015. Males/Females, AKC papers, 1st Shots, multiple wormings, Health Guar., 4 Generation Pedigree & Puppy starter Kit all included.
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large breed pup contact for more info..very nice
italian cane corso mixed with argentina dogo..
now 4 mnths,ears fully intact ,tail docked..
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French bulldog puppy
AKC registered, 6 wk old fawn pied Female available to pet home. Comes up to date on vaccines and vet checked. Very friendly and outgoing. Located in Connecticut, please contact for more info.
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New York
AKC registered, D.O.B 9/1/15. Will be ready for new home in 2 wks, comes up to date on vaccines and dewormed. Very friendly and outgoing. Located in Connecticut. Please contact for more info.
Show dogs all American rednose pits
I have 4 beautiful american pitbull terrier puppies available.
These are 100% rednose apbt's!
These are beautiful showstopping pups!
Mother and father both on premises.
These are great family dogs raised with children since birth.
These pups are from my beautiful family dogs.
Dont miss out this is the dams last litter.
You wont find better pups anywhere!
Chocolate and coco fawn coloring.
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Olde English Bulldogge puppies
we have a few well breed Olde English Bulldogge pups for adoption to good homes these are Quailty there names like Bostonian, BlackDiamond and more the are very good with children and protective of there home if you want a bulldogge without the health problems here you go if your interested call maybe I can work with you.
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AKC French Bulldog puppies
Beautiful frenchie pups available for appointments! All of our guys and girls are registered with the American Kennel Club (AKC) and will come with their health certificate up to date on vaccinations/deworming. Our pups are all raised in my home with my family so they have wonderful loving and affectionate personalities with really the best temperaments. We think they will be the perfect ...


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Help Solve the Mystery of the Bewitching Women In These Gorgeous Vintage Found Photos
A few weeks ago, photographer Meagan Abell was thrift store shopping in Richmond, Virginia, when she came across a box of film negatives. Curious about the images, she bought the negatives, took them home, and scanned them…
And was absolutely stunned by the photographs' beautiful, moody atmosphere.
The devastatingly gorgeous results show two young women, bathed in the rosy, golden light of the setting sun, standing on a beach, and walking into the ocean.
Unfortunately, the owner of the thrift store has no idea where the photos came from though, judging by the style of dress, Abell's best guess is that they were take in the 1940s or 1950s. She thinks the film is most likely 60mm, and may be Kodachrome.
But beyond that, the incredible photographs and their subjects are a total mystery.
So Abell turned to Facebook to help her solve the mystery. Using the hashtag #FindTheGirlsOnTheNegatives, tens of thousands of people have shared the images and are busy searching for the mystery women…
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Milwaukee's M18 cordless one-handed 18-volt reciprocating saw (2625-21) weighs 5.9 pounds, has a 3/4-inch stroke length, and operates at 0 to 3,000 strokes per minute. It features dual-gear anti-vibration for comfort and longevity, says Milwaukee, and has a quick-lock blade clamp. The tool is sold with one lithium-ion battery, a charger, a blade, and a bag. ¦ Price: $289. 800-729-3878. www.milwaukeetool.com.
Bosch's 26618-01 18-volt impact drill/driver is 7 inches long and has a two-speed motor (0 to 750/2,800 rpm) with an impact mode of 1,500 inch-pounds of torque. It features the company's Electronic Motor Protection, which protects the motor from damage due to stalling, and Electronic Cell Protection, which protects the batteries from overload; and comes with a built-in LED and a metal belt hook. ¦ Price: $369. 877-267-2499. www.boschtools.com.
Rockwell's 3-pound H3 rotary hammerdrill has an SDS-plus quick chuck that converts it to a three-jaw drill or power screwdriver. The rotary hammer operates at 0 to 4,800 bpm, with a no-load speed of 0 to 900 rpm. Its drilling capacity is 3/8 inch for wood and concrete and 5/16 inch for steel. The 12-volt battery drills up to fifteen 14- 1/4-inch holes in 4,800-psi concrete on a single charge, the company says. The tool includes a 30-minute charger with a built-in USB port and is covered by the maker's Free Batteries for Life program. ¦ Price: $179. 866-514-7625. www.rockwelltools.com.
With a tool-free steel shoe to switch quickly from straight to 45-degree cuts, the Porter-Cable 18-volt jigsaw (PC18JS) runs at a maximum of 2,500 strokes per minute. It features a three-position orbital control to adjust the blade angle, a detachable vacuum attachment port, and a tool-free blade clamp. Batteries and charger are sold separately. ¦ Price: $59. 888-848-5175. www.deltaportercable.com.
Makita's first 36-volt cordless tool is the 9.9-pound BHR261 rotary hammer. Powered by an LXT lithium-ion battery, it delivers 0 to 1,200 rpm and 0 to 4,800 bpm and has three modes of operation: rotation only, hammering with rotation, and hammering only. Features include a built-in torque limiter, a one-touch sliding chuck, a two-finger trigger, and a built-in LED. The tool measures 14-1/4 inches and comes with two batteries, a 30-minute charger, a side handle, a depth gauge and a tool case. ¦ Price: $899. 800-462-5482. www.makitatools.com.
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I need to write a very high load UDP server. I'm using .Net. How do I use the Socket class to achieve this?
I am familiar with the winsock API, and completion ports, and what i would do there, is to use several threads to accept sockets using a completion port, and also to receive in the same manner.
My server needs to process a LOT of small UDP packets very quickly, and i want to receive them asynchronously, how do i do this using .net?
I thought of calling BeginReceive several times, but that kinda seems silly...
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Ok, my old xbox's hdd decided to take a crap on me, and broke, so i bought a new one, well the thing is, i have my new xbox, and this big piece of crap waiting to be tinkered with. Is there a way i could dump a 80-120gb hdd in my broken xbox that wont boot to the dash, and then make it run EvoX??
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Not without some way to run unsigned code. You will need a modchip or one of the other various exploits to get it to run unsigned code. You can then burn evox to a cd-rw and format the hdd.
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Yeah, if you have a flashed modchip, you should be able to boot an evox boot disk and format the drives from there.
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