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What elevates any of those scenarios from an ordinary off day to a prolonged slump is the way the athlete interprets the dip. "It has less to do with what is contributing to the decrease in performance and more to do with how you react and adjust to the decline," says Jonathan Katz, a psychologist at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons...
...them a clicker pen and tell them to just click over from the negative to the positive channel." If the anxiety doesn't go away, says Smith, then it's time to switch to the escape channel. That's for thoughts about how the athlete's role model would react. How would Joe DiMaggio get over the disappointment? What would the Babe...
Natural disasters are terrible things but what ultimately defines us is not what happens to us but how we react. After the tsunami hit, the world donated billions of dollars; Americans alone gave $1.6 billion, more than to any other disaster overseas. And four months after Hurricane Katrina, the donations approach $3 billion. This got me to thinking about the nature of giving, and what makes for temporary relief vs. lasting change. Sudden disasters get the big headlines, but day after day other tragedies of avoidable dimensions unfold: the one child who dies of malaria in Africa every 29 seconds...
...Audiences," writes Louise Bourassa Perrotta, author of Saint Joseph: His Life and His Role in the Church Today, "do not generally react well when favorite characters are retired early," citing Sherlock Holmes and Joseph. Nor did early Christians appreciate potshots by contemporaries who suspected Jesus might have been Joseph's son after all, or questioned Mary's virginity when Scripture talked about his having several "brothers" and "sisters." Among the first attempts to address all those issues were the vivid set of books known as the Apocrypha...
...plans to make Comedy for a Cause an annual event with a different beneficiary each year.But according to Lauren P.S. Epstein ’07, another of the show’s co-producers, the organizers were initially unsure of how Harvard students would react to the use of comedy to raise funds for a natural disaster. “I was a little nervous about having comedy of that nature on the stage of Sanders (and for such an emotionally-charged cause), but everyone had a great time,” Epstein wrote in an e-mail. Lisa Lampanelli...