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Bob Woodward - Fear-Trump in the White House .pdf
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Fear - Trump in the White House
Bob Woodward
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In a Nursery School, there's a basket of apples with a notice written over it :
"Do not take more than one, God is watching"
On the other counter there's a box of chocolates,
A small child went & wrote on it.
"Take as many as you want, God is busy watching the apples"...
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KID: Why some of your hairs are white dad...?
DAD: Every time you make me unhappy , one of my hair turns white…
KID: Now I understand why grandpa’s hairs are all white.
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Teacher: How old is your father?
Kid: He is 6 years.
Teacher: What? How is this possible?
Kid: He became father only when I was born.
The Drive to Keep Growing Emotionally

We know well enough that we are equipped with an innate drive for physical growth; that the human animal is geared to keep developing towards its outward mature form, adding muscle and bone and fatty tissue, in a spontaneous process of development that begins in our earliest days in the womb and ends around our sixteenth year.

What is less obvious is that we are marked by an equally innate, equally powerful, although here life-long, drive towards emotional growth. Without anything mystical being meant by this, unless we are impeded by internal or external obstacles, we are set on an ineluctable path towards emotional development.

An obvious conceptual difference between the two drives is that we can know easily enough what it means to be fully grown physically, but it is rather harder to pin down what equivalent emotional maturity might look like.
https://www.theschooloflife.com/thebookoflife/the-drive-to-keep-growing-emotionally/?utm_source=The+School+of+Life&utm_campaign=173a67f19f-TBOL_ENEWS_21092018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_717e06d46b-173a67f19f-22277669&mc_cid=173a67f19f&mc_eid=62fb72e0b8
In Peace or In Pieces
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Rape allegations against Cristiano Ronaldo 'not fake news,' accuser's lawyer says

A lawyer representing the woman claiming Cristiano Ronaldo, one of the world's biggest soccer stars, raped her in a Las Vegas hotel room in 2009 has said the accusation is not "fake news."

@cnnbrk
STOP LABELING PEOPLE
1.THINK ABOUT HOW BEING LABELED WOULD AFFECT YOU. Whenever you notice yourself inappropriately labeling someone, try to think about how you would feel if they did the same to you.
2.CONSIDER WHY SOMEONE MIGHT ACT THE WAY THEY DO. You won't always know why someone is acting in a certain manner.
3. ASK FOR YOUR FRIENDS TO HELP YOU. It can be difficult to notice when you are labeling people if you are just beginning to put an end to the habit.
4.IMAGINE HOW LABELING MIGHT AFFECT SOMEONE'S LIFE. Although labels are just words, they can have serious effects on a person's behavior and can change how people are treated.
5. REMEMBER THAT A PERSON IS MORE THAN A LABEL. Human behavior is complex and a simple label won't capture the entire personality of an individual.
6. FOCUS ON WHAT YOU HAVE IN COMMON WITH OTHERS. Focusing on what you have in common with others can go a long way in cutting down on the amount of labels you apply to them.
7.AVOID GOSSIPING. If you find yourself gossiping about other people, try to stop and shift the focus of your conversation. Gossip can easily create more labels for the people you are discussing.
8. CHALLENGE YOUR PRECONCEIVED NOTIONS. Maybe you've already labeled a person or group of people negatively.

https://www.wikihow.com/Stop-Labeling-People
https://t.me/MkNotes/676
PSYCHIATRIC LABELING LACKS SPECIFICITY
Basically, the labels in practice now tend to generalize the experiences of many individuals rather than highlighting the nuances of those experiences. THIS CREATES A LOT OF GREY AREA in understanding the extent to which individuals are affected by their mental illness, and creates expectations as to what their experience is like. For example:

TWO INDIVIDUALS DIAGNOSED WITH DEPRESSION MIGHT HAVE VARYING WAYS THAT THEIR ILLNESS MANIFESTS. ONE PERSON MIGHT FEEL A STRONG LACK OF MOTIVATION, WHILE THE OTHER MIGHT BE CONTEMPLATING SUICIDE.

Given the significant difference between these two experiences, would it not be more worthwhile to invest in more specific terms that can be applied to the experiences of affected individuals? To apply the same generic treatment to these two individuals might not be the best way to proceed given the difference in their experience.

ALSO, SOME PEOPLE FEEL THAT PSYCHIATRIC LABELING IS BASED ON SOMEWHAT ARBITRARY PRINCIPLES, AS IT IS SUBJECTIVE TO THE EVALUATION OF THE MENTAL HEALTH PRACTITIONER.

How do we decide the extent to which an individual is affected by a mental illness? What makes someone “really depressed” instead of “just depressed”? How many symptoms of a particular mental illness must a person experience in order for them to be diagnosed with that illness? Clearly, the current system of psychiatric labeling lacks the specificity it is in need of.


https://sites.google.com/a/haverford.edu/the-psychology-of/teaching/psychiatric-labels-cause-harm-by-stigmatizing-people
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Such memories, of course, would imply the unthinkable: that Iran was as beautiful, as fun, as energizing and romantic, as Oklahoma or Montana or New York.
when all conversation would stop and she would be asked to repeat our escape story. The problem, of course, was that they wanted our salvation story as a talisman, no more. No one ever asked what our house in Iran looked like, what fruits we grew in our yard, what books we read, what music we loved and what it felt like now not to understand any of the songs on the radio. No one asked if we missed our cousins or grandparents or best friends. No one asked what we did in summers or if we had any photos of the Caspian Sea. “Men treat women horribly there, don’t they?” the women would ask. Somehow it didn’t feel OK to tell them about my funny dad with his pockets full of sour cherries, or my grandpa who removed his false teeth when he told ghost stories.
In many of the classes I’ve taught, my quietest kids have been Middle Eastern. I’m always surprised by this, since the literature I choose should resonate most with them, since I’m an Iranian teacher, their ally, since the civilized world yearns for their voices now. Still, they bristle at headlines about the refugee crisis that I flash on the screen, hang their heads, and look relieved when the class is finished. Their silence makes me angry, but I understand why they don’t want to commit to any point of view. Who knows what their universe looks like outside my classroom, what sentiments they’re expected to display in order to be on the inside
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/04/dina-nayeri-ungrateful-refugee?CMP=share_btn_fb