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...write about the different stages that you went through afterward. What was that like? It's absolutely grief. In fact, I think it's worse than if someone had died, because this person chose to leave you. I mean, that's as big a rejection as can be. He did not want to marry me, and I thought, "I must be some kind of horrible person to have someone do this." I'd never heard of this happening to anybody, you know? It was just a complete depression...
Consider for a moment why certain stocks rallied. The news that gave Citi - and a bunch of other finance firms - such a boost was that the New York City-based company would be profitable for the months of January and February. Fantastic, but those results exclude asset write-downs (i.e., one of the big reasons the stock takes a beating most other days of the week). Another big gainer: United Technologies. What did the aerospace-equipment and industrial-products maker do to earn an 8.6% boost to its stock price? It said it would lay off 11,600 people. (Read...
...explore how we come by our illusory sense of power, a team led by business professors Nathanael Fast and Deborah Gruenfeld of Stanford University devised a series of experiments. In the first, they recruited 38 students and divided them into three groups. They asked one group to write about an experience in which they felt they had control over other people, and another group to write about a time they felt out of control. The third group wrote nothing. All of the students were then given dice and told that if they correctly guessed the number they rolled, they would...
...Choosing to roll the die represents an illusory sense of control," the researchers write. "[But] the outcomes were uncontrollable...
...lives outward has the effect of diminishing our ability to engage in private contemplation and develop sincere personal thoughts—in other words, to be alone. Many seem to find solitude so uncomfortable that they feel compelled to share their thoughts with a mass audience. As I write this article, Facebook statuses inform me that one boy in my network “is napping” and another “is hungry.” Clearly, both are in reality dedicating time to grooming their technological image...