Word: painful
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...Wall Street firms make money when people are in pain," says Frank Partnoy, who once traded credit-derivative contracts at Morgan Stanley and is now a law professor at the University of San Diego. "I don't know if that is what is happening, but if the question is whether banks would converge on a dying body - the answer is, Absolutely...
While Obama's economists search for 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...
...Obama campaign actually priced out a similar mailer but decided not to risk a backlash.) And shame works; even some AIG executives gave up bonuses. Cialdini says brain imaging shows that when we think we're out of step with our peers, the part of our brain that registers pain shifts into overdrive. "It's an incredibly powerful spur to action," he says. (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...
...that social science can guide people to make better and healthier choices for themselves, whether it means buying that long-lasting lightbulb or shunning that Twinkie. Facilitating change harnesses some principles that behavioral scientists have known for decades: we're a lot more irrational than we realize; we avoid pain more than we seek comfort; we tend to stick with the status quo; and we like to conform with our peers. Michael got interested in this idea when he was reporting his January cover story on energy efficiency. He later discovered that during Obama's election effort, there...
...Thinking of suicide gives me hope that i'll be in my place wherever i go after this life--that ill finally not be at war w. myself, the world, the universe." Klebold was the follower, not the planner. Under Harris' careful direction, he learned to turn his inner pain inside out, into an insane desire to punish others. By the spring of 1999, he and Harris were both calling themselves gods. The rest of us were zombies, losers, robots, trapped in our inferior little lives by our inferior little minds. They were ready to kill. (Read "The Columbine Tapes...