Word: hatefulness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...like the Super Bowl. If your team isn't in it, you root for the team you hate less. That's McCain." - on his dislike for John McCain, The New York Times Magazine, July...
What exactly is ACT? Where standard psychotherapy often tries to change negative thoughts by asking probing questions (does everyone at the office really hate you, or are you just indulging in your own self-doubt?), ACT therapists take the position that trying really hard to change your thoughts tends to be counterproductive. Negative thoughts have a way of coming back again and again - have you ever tried to stop obsessing about pizza when you're on a diet? (See pictures of what makes you eat more food...
...attract an audience of people who would never have considered attending a classical music concert?RK: Yes. In order to get audience members to come who normally wouldn’t, I go on AM call-in radio shows and offer four free tickets to people who seem to hate classical music the most. In Omaha, Nebraska, the winner was a woman who complained that classical music had no plot. I thought that was truly insightful—there are just notes going by, just random sounds. My job is to get people to follow the plot of the music...
...people hate doodlers, those who idly scribble during meetings (or classes or trials or whatever). Most people also hate that other closely related species: the fidgeter, who spins pens or reorders papers or plays with his phone during meetings. (I stand guilty as charged. On occasion, I have also been known to whisper.) We doodlers, fidgeters and whisperers always get the same jokey, passive-aggressive line from the authority figure at the front of the room: "I'm sorry, are we bothering you?" How droll. But the underlying message is clear: Pay attention...
What do you like best and hate most about performing live? Rudi Obermair SCHWANENSTADT, AUSTRIA...