Rejection Therapy: The Game You Win by Actively Seeking Out Rejection. Not a new idea.
Influential psychologist Albert Ellis basically started his now well-known model of therapy (Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy) with this idea, using his fear of approaching women: "At the age of 19, he gave himself a homework assignment when he was off from college. He went to Bronx Botanical Garden every day that month, and whenever he saw a woman sitting alone on a park bench, he would sit next to her, which he wouldn't dare do before. He gave himself one minute to talk to her, calming his fears by saying silently to himself, 'If I die, I die. Screw it, so I die.' He didn't die. He found 130 women sitting alone that month on park benches. Al later said, 'If Fred Skinner, who was then teaching at Indiana University, had known about my exploits, he would have thought I would have got extinguished, because of the 100 women I made one date — and she didn't show up!
More here: [www.rebtnetwork.org] Having Religion Doesn't Always Mean Having Good Ethics. Dumb Little Man - Tips for Life: 7 Life Changing Lessons You Can Learn from Mark Twain. In 1871, Mark Twain was born as Samuel Langhorne Clemens in Florida, Missouri, U.S.
He was a writer, and lecturer. He was called the “greatest American humorist of his age.” He wrote the now classic novels, virginia.edu/railton/huckfinn/huchompg.html">Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. He wrote some great stuff that is still read by millions today. “I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.” We walk around all our lives thinking about things that will never happen.
Our minds are out of control. Eliminating bad thoughts is possible, through methods such as EFT and The Work. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. We want safety. I’ve battled with this myself, and I often stop myself from doing things because it feels unsafe. In reality, we can’t know what the future will bring. Imagine that something negative happened to you. Math doesn't suck, you do. Every time I hear someone say "I suck at math," I immediately think he or she is a moron.
If you suck at math, what you really suck at is following instructions. This shirt is birth control. Sucking at math is like sucking at cooking. I'm tired of eating shitty food because you're too much of a dipshit to follow a recipe. Also, I'm tired of hearing people brag about how they can't cook like it's some kind of badge of honor.
Math is exactly like cooking: just follow the recipe. Math isn't some voodoo that only smart people understand. Theoretical math is cool as shit. Ever heard of Pascal's triangle? No, because you're too busy saying the same tired excuse every other dickhead spews out about math: "when will I ever use this in life? " First of all, if you're leading your life in such a way that you never have to do math, congratulations, you are a donkey. Why is math the only discipline that has to put up with this bullshit? Barry Schwartz on our loss of wisdom. What You'll Wish You'd Known. January 2005 (I wrote this talk for a high school.
I never actually gave it, because the school authorities vetoed the plan to invite me.) When I said I was speaking at a high school, my friends were curious. What will you say to high school students? So I asked them, what do you wish someone had told you in high school? I'll start by telling you something you don't have to know in high school: what you want to do with your life. If I were back in high school and someone asked about my plans, I'd say that my first priority was to learn what the options were. It might seem that nothing would be easier than deciding what you like, but it turns out to be hard, partly because it's hard to get an accurate picture of most jobs. But there are other jobs you can't learn about, because no one is doing them yet. And yet every May, speakers all over the country fire up the Standard Graduation Speech, the theme of which is: don't give up on your dreams.
Which is an uncomfortable thought. Upwind Now. How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie. Book - 9 insights on life.