A Boat Against the Current

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Showing posts with label Temptation. Show all posts
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Thursday, November 13, 2014

Quote of the Day (Walter Mischel, on ‘The Core Strategy for Self-Control’)

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“Regardless of age, the core strategy for self-control is to cool the ‘now’ and heat the ‘later’ — push the temptation in front of you...
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I'm a librarian (no, NOT a "cybrarian" or "information scientist" or any of the other trendy terms the profession has come up with), as well as a freelance writer/researcher; my political leanings are contrarian, much to the dismay of friends on the left and right, and so I will give anyone looking for my vote exactly what they deserve -- the back of my hand
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