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  • Pet a Cat When You Encounter

    Pet a Cat When You Encounter
    Jan 2 2025
    RULE 12 PET A CAT WHEN YOU ENCOUNTER ONE ON THE STREET DOGS ARE OK TOO I am going to start this chapter by stating directly that I own a dog, an American Eskimo, one of the many variants of the basic spitz type.
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    16 Min.
  • Be precise in your speech

    Be precise in your speech
    Dec 31 2024
    RULE 10 BE PRECISE IN YOUR SPEECH WHY IS MY LAPTOP OBSOLETE? What do you see, when you look at a computer—at your own laptop, more precisely? You see a flat, thin, grey-and-black box. Less evidently, you see something to type on and look at. Nonetheless, even with the second perceptions included,what are you seeing is hardly the computer at all. That grey and black box happens to be a computer right now, right here and now, and maybe even an expensive computer.
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    16 Min.
  • Assume that the Person

    Assume that the Person
    Dec 30 2024
    RULE 9 ASSUME THAT THE PERSON YOU ARE LISTENING TO MIGHT KNOW SOMETHING YOU DON’T NOT ADVICE Psychotherapy is not advice. Advice is what you get when the person you’re talking with about something horrible and complicated wishes you would just shut up and go away. Advice is what you get when the person you are talking to wants to revel in the superiority of his or her own intelligence.
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    14 Min.
  • Tell the truth—or at least, don't lie

    Tell the truth—or at least, don't lie
    Dec 28 2024
    RULE 8 TELL THE TRUTH—OR, AT LEAST, DON’T LIE TRUTH IN NO-MAN’S-LAND I trained to become a clinical psychologist at McGill University, in Montreal. While doing so, I sometimes met my classmates on the grounds of Montreal’s Douglas Hospital, where we had our first direct experiences with the mentally ill.
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    21 Min.