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	<title>The Behaviour Effect &#187; awareness</title>
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		<title>Are you a procrastinator?</title>
		<link>http://www.thebehavioureffect.com/2010/02/24/are-you-a-procrastinator/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:19:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever put something off until tomorrow?  It is a fact that we tend to put off those things which have a negative emotion attached to them.  Perhaps the task at hand is ‘too hard’, will ‘take too long’, is too ‘boring’ or requires ‘too much effort’.  Twenty percent of people identify themselves as chronic procrastinators.  And it’s a lifestyle.

Procrastinators tell themselves lies, such as, "I'll feel more like doing this tomorrow." Or "I work best under pressure." In reality they do not get the urge the next day.  In addition, they protect their sense of self by saying "this isn't important."

Read more about how to recognise a procrastinator after the jump...]]></description>
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		<title>If that&#8217;s what YOU want.</title>
		<link>http://www.thebehavioureffect.com/2009/11/25/if-thats-what-you-want/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:33:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth Thompson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Behaviour]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watching the programme 'House' the other night I was struck by a the way Cameran delivered the line "If that's what you want" to her husband and colleague Chase.  She placed the emphasis on the word 'you'.  The meaning was clear.  She was making a point about who's opinion she thought Chase was expressing.  She suspecting (rightly!) that Chase had been manipulated into the opinion by theirrepressible House.  Emphasising 'you'...she stressed that Chase should be sure it was indeed his opinion and not someoneelses.

It got me thinking about the tone of voice we use and which word we place the emphasis on.  Repeat Cameran's line to yourself, "If that's what you want".  Say it five times, each time emphasising a different word.  How does that change the meaning of the sentence.?]]></description>
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		<title>I sense that you&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.thebehavioureffect.com/2009/11/16/i-sense-that-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth Thompson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human Nature]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[barnum effect]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA["You have a need for other people to like and admire you, and yet you tend to be critical of yourself.  I sense that sometimes you are insecure especially with people you don't know. While you have some personality weaknesses you are generally able to compensate for them.  You have considerable unused capacity that you have not turned to your advantage. You're having problems with a friend or relative.  At times you have serious doubts whether you have made the right decision or done the right things. You have a box of old, unsorted photographs in your house.  Disciplined and self-controlled on the outside, yout end to be worrisome and insecure on the inside.  You prefer a certain amount of change and cariety and become dissatisfied when hemmed in by restrictions and limitations.  You also pride yourself as an independent thinker and do not accept others' statemens without satisfactory proof.  But you have  found it unwise to be frank in revealing yourself to others.  At times you are extroverted, affable and sociable, while at other times you are introverted, wary and reserved.  Some of your aspirations tend to be rather unrealistic."

Am I right?  Did you recognise yourself in the above description?]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Doing a Ratner&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.thebehavioureffect.com/2009/11/13/doing-a-ratner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:11:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth Thompson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cause & Effect]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[awareness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crash & burn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[listening]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How many of us speak before we think?
It is true to say that we all say things without first thinking them through. Ever answered an employee&#8217;s question only taking that individual employee into consideration and not the very likely probability that, that same employee may recount the conversation to others?
Gerald Ratner had makes jokes about [...]]]></description>
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