Word: focus
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...pain-free, hassle-free solutions to our easy-way-out instincts, his rhetoric often aims to build our tolerance for pain and hassle. He urges us to snap out of denial, to accept that we're in for some prolonged discomfort but not to wallow in it, to focus on our values. That happens to sound a lot like "acceptance and commitment therapy," the latest advance in behavioral psychology. Instead of assisting smokers to ignore cravings and chronic-pain sufferers to think about other things - the old denial approach - acceptance therapy pushes patients to acknowledge negative thoughts and then overcome...
...think being fearful of an opponent isn’t beneficial, [and] seeing that an opponent has lost a bunch of games can make you overconfident or play down to a team’s level,” Bock said. “I just try to focus on Harvard softball. As long as we do that and keep the game at our own pace, we’ll be successful against any opponent...
...real emotional power. Such descriptions abound in the novel in a flat, monotonous way, and the purely grotesque, after intense repetition, has neither comic nor dramatic value. Thus even those scenes which ought to be most powerful have little impact, as with the death of Senyor, a character of focus for some odd pages: “The blacksmith gave the word for the cement man to commence; they forced open Senyor’s mouth and began to fill it. Senyor’s eyes were bulging; his chest rose twice as he retched.” This would...
...Grey’s Anatomy, Nip/Tuck, and Gossip Girl. Yi-Hui “Ivy” Wu ’09 decided to organize this event for her senior project as an intern at the Women’s Center. “I’m focusing on the role of pop culture and popular TV on how we view women, because I think that people don’t always realize how much of an impact pop culture has on how we see things,” Wu said. Although shows like Gossip Girl, Nip/Tuck, and Grey?...
Nearly four months after the anticipated debut of a comprehensive plan for House renovations, Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds released the final Report on Harvard House Renewal yesterday afternoon in an e-mail to the College community. The report—a compilation of feedback from focus groups, five House Program Planning Subcommittees, and a college-wide survey that was initially scheduled to come out in December—provides an action plan for the next generation of House life and focuses specifically on the areas of academic, social, and residential space. “Our overarching goal...