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...find writing the book cathartic? There was a good deal of catharsis. I started feeling that by sharing it, I was getting stronger, not weaker...
...what's going on here? In her paper, Wood hypothesizes that "changing circumstances may break habitual cues that favor old favorites and promote a more general 'change mindset' in the individual." You break up with your boring girlfriend, and suddenly you find that a lot of your old habits - Simpsons reruns after work, burritos from the same place every night, Sunday mornings in bed with the newspaper - feel too feeble for your emboldened new self. Or, as Wood writes - rather poetically for a marketing professor - "the familiar threads of everyday life stitch our habits into place." Unstitch the threads...
...what's the first thing you do with clients? First I want to find out what their life is like. I want to know about their personality, whether they have any addictions to gambling, sex, drugs, cigarettes. The goal is to get someone to go in addiction-free, where they don't need anything from anybody. You don't want to put yourself in debt...
...were counseling someone with a lot of media exposure, like Burress or Bernie Madoff [who also employed a prison consultant], what would you tell them? If you're being followed in the media, well, these correctional facilities have TVs. Once they find out where you're going, they're waiting for you. You're going to be scrutinized by everyone. It's like your first day of school. Take Madoff, for example: there's a bounty on this guy. He's ruined so many lives, screwed so many people over. If he has no fear, he's more psychotic than...
...hard to find reasons why the regime of Muammar Ghaddafi may be loath to accept responsibility for the attack even it agrees to compensate the victims. For one thing, to accept responsibility for a terror attack on a U.S. target that killed 270 people might still invite reprisals - indeed, U.S. counterterrorism officials told the New York Times Wednesday that the trial had showed the limits of using criminal law as a weapon against terrorism, because the real authors of the attack remained unpunished. Read the subtext of those comments, and it's plain to see why there's unlikely...