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	<title>Psych-Out</title>
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	<description>by michael joseph lmsw</description>
	<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 05:19:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Poker</title>
		<link>http://michaeljosephtherapy.com/blog/2010/01/25/poker/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 03:35:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mjoseph</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Behavior]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Decision making]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Thought]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[denial]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[poker]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[realism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[responsibility]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Great poker players are self-aware, conscious of who they are for better and worse, take responsibility for their own results]]></description>
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		<title>he must be crazy&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://michaeljosephtherapy.com/blog/2009/12/28/he-must-be-crazy/</link>
		<comments>http://michaeljosephtherapy.com/blog/2009/12/28/he-must-be-crazy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 05:04:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mjoseph</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Behavior]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Decision making]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[joy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Phillipe Petit]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[risk]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[routine]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Sisyphus]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://michaeljosephtherapy.com/blog/?p=1951</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We all take comfort in the story of Sisyphus who was doomed to an eternity of rolling that rock up the hill day in and day out, only to have it roll back down. We take comfort in it, even as we curse it as our own fate.]]></description>
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		<title>Silence</title>
		<link>http://michaeljosephtherapy.com/blog/2009/12/06/silence/</link>
		<comments>http://michaeljosephtherapy.com/blog/2009/12/06/silence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 05:24:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mjoseph</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Our Senses]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[4'33"]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Gordon Hempton]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[John Cage]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Silence]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[sound]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://michaeljosephtherapy.com/blog/?p=1925</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ 

10:37pm…midwinter…20007. An ice storm cut through Ann Arbor downing our electricity for days. Gone the incessant humming, buzzing, and chatter of TVs, microwave ovens, radios, computers, digital clocks, lamps, and the refrigerator. Other than the occasional snapping and popping of a perky fireplace fire, the house was doused in the sudden immensity of silence.
 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>pornography is dead</title>
		<link>http://michaeljosephtherapy.com/blog/2009/10/30/pornography-is-dead/</link>
		<comments>http://michaeljosephtherapy.com/blog/2009/10/30/pornography-is-dead/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:51:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mjoseph</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Aretino]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[De Sade]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Diderot]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[pornography]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ragionamenti]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://michaeljosephtherapy.com/blog/?p=1892</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We are exposed to more naked bodies engaged in more kinds of sex than any time in the history of humankind. ]]></description>
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		<title>Excuses</title>
		<link>http://michaeljosephtherapy.com/blog/2009/09/09/excuses/</link>
		<comments>http://michaeljosephtherapy.com/blog/2009/09/09/excuses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:45:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mjoseph</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Behavior]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Emotion]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Bukowski]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[excuses]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://michaeljosephtherapy.com/blog/?p=1880</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
kandinski
Excuses
by Charles Bukowski

once again
I hear of somebody who is going to
settle down and do their work,
painting or writing or whatever,
as soon as they get a better light
installed,
or as soon as they move to a new
city,
or as soon as they come back from the trip they
have been planning,
or as soon as&#8230;






it&#8217;s simple:  they just don&#8217;t want
to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>moping</title>
		<link>http://michaeljosephtherapy.com/blog/2009/08/21/moping/</link>
		<comments>http://michaeljosephtherapy.com/blog/2009/08/21/moping/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mjoseph</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Behavior]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[moping]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dejected?  Disappointed?  Has some expectation suddenly spun out of reach?  At  such times, nothing like giving yourself over to a good dose of moping.]]></description>
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		<title>Our Monkey Minds</title>
		<link>http://michaeljosephtherapy.com/blog/2009/07/04/our-monkey-minds/</link>
		<comments>http://michaeljosephtherapy.com/blog/2009/07/04/our-monkey-minds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:01:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mjoseph</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Behavior]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Emotion]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Our Senses]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Thought]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[agitation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[fear]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Minkey-mind]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Monkey Mind]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://michaeljosephtherapy.com/blog/?p=1849</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Our thoughts, spin, twist, twirl and around that cage of a brain.  With all of the billions of neurons in our brains firing on/off on/off, there's bound to be a bit of noise. ]]></description>
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		<title>Self-deception</title>
		<link>http://michaeljosephtherapy.com/blog/2009/06/07/self-deception/</link>
		<comments>http://michaeljosephtherapy.com/blog/2009/06/07/self-deception/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 20:16:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mjoseph</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Behavior]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Evolution]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Beneffectance]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[camouflage]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[deception]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[exaggeration]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[illusion of consistency]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[perception of relationship]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[self-awareness]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[self-deception]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://michaeljosephtherapy.com/blog/?p=1835</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We play hide and seek with our own motives.  Like expert investigators, we’ll build a case to support some action -- a case that is so convincing that we  can keep even ourselves in the dark about what we’re doing, and why!]]></description>
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		<title>Restraint</title>
		<link>http://michaeljosephtherapy.com/blog/2009/05/18/restraint/</link>
		<comments>http://michaeljosephtherapy.com/blog/2009/05/18/restraint/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 15:15:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mjoseph</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Behavior]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Decision making]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Evolution]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[ali]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Baltasar Gracian]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Boxing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[restraint]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[rope-a-dope]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[When We Were Kings]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://michaeljosephtherapy.com/blog/?p=1800</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
Ali accepts Foreman&#8217;s blows
&#8220;The crutch of Time can do more than the steely club of Hercules.”  Baltasar Gracián
Nothing can be more disarming than restraint in the face of powerful forces you can’t control.  To simply lay against the ropes.  Hold back.  Let the forces around you work themselves out.  Sometimes it means accepting the blows, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Littlewood&#8217;s Law:  A Miracle a Month</title>
		<link>http://michaeljosephtherapy.com/blog/2009/05/02/littlewoods-law-a-miracle-a-month/</link>
		<comments>http://michaeljosephtherapy.com/blog/2009/05/02/littlewoods-law-a-miracle-a-month/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 13:14:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mjoseph</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Thought]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Littlewood]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[miracles]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Using simple math and a few suppositions, professor Littlewood figured that we should expect one miraculous occurrence every 35 days.]]></description>
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