Word: craving
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...Mann says. One hack he advocates is what he calls 10+2x5. Rather than starting work only to be sucked into time-wasting websites, set a timer for 10 minutes and focus exclusively on a task for that interval. Then give yourself two minutes for whatever frivolity you crave. Repeat that process five times, and you'll have gotten 50 productive minutes out of a work hour that typically yields much less...
...ended and before they start draining the system's pension and health-care assets. That's bad news if you're looking forward to a kick-up-your-heels early retirement; the financial and cultural support for a purely leisure-filled later life is drying up. But if you crave opportunities for a flexible job that you will enjoy or volunteer work that makes use of your skills and speaks to your heart, then what's good for the federal budget may be good...
...neighbor. "It takes female friendship to another level. You're trusting another person to nurture your child," she says. And she adds that since she and her husband don't live near family, "it's also a way of building that village or community that a lot of us crave...
...truth, it is unlikely that many Americans will fight too hard even for this more modest form of egalitarianism. This is because many crave the self-help genre’s stern brand of personal responsibility. Lisa Nichols, an author who appeared on Oprah, says her attitude to those who attend her workshops is, “I don’t want to know [your sad story].” What can come off as callousness towards undeserved suffering, is strong medicine for others. Another popular book, “Rich Dad, Poor Dad,” published...
...suffocating until it was too late, according to Gibbons. But reports of other violations were the result of procedural failures, he said. SAEN cited a Harvard lab for depriving monkeys of water, part of an experiment that involved giving monkeys grape juice as an incentive. To make the monkeys crave the juice, they were not given water—normally a legal practice, Gibbons said. Gibbons said the lab received a violation because researchers did not file the proper paperwork for the experiment which would have allowed the monkeys to not be given water. In another violation which SAEN referred...