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The author of "The Tipping Point" and "Blink" talks about "false certainties".
madiba51 3664 reads
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Malcolm Gladwell has some interesting things to say.

If the link below doesn't work, google "gladwell explain everything" to find the article.

Related Link: False certainties

mattradd967 reads

are bringing this up. Is it about politics? Is it about religion.

I've read both books, and really don't need someone giving me a recommended reading list out of left field, thank you!

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mattradd1265 reads

"Just google it, as suggested."

Who are you that I would even think of looking up and reading something you have recommended?

There are some people on this board, whom I come to respect, due to their history of posts, that I have taken their reading recommendations. You have no such history.

And, though I find Malcolm Gladwells books very interesting and helpful, I have no particular interest in his writings on the issue you bring up, since I have no idea what it is. If you'd say more regarding it's relevancy and to what, I may develop some interest in looking up the reference.

You just don't get it! I'm not certain if it's just that you are extremely detached or very narcissistic. Or, perhaps you are just too lazy to be bothered to inform me of what you are talking about. To me your whole process comes across as condescending!

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GaGambler1394 reads

Most likely he is posting here because he knows there is not a chance in hell that I would allow it on the GD board.

Pretty good call on your part though. Madiba loves to spew his psychobabble to anyone who will listed. Fortunately, very few are willing to listen. His chances of ever being unmoderated are nil as long as I am a mod, and you know I allow almost anything, Pri's dragging his feud from here onto the GD board is proof of that.

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mattradd2002 reads

Due to the silence, or lack of response to his post here, and usually on the GB, I couldn't tell if it was just me, or, after reading his posts, most people feel in such a fog, that they can't think of anything to say to him.

-- Modified on 1/24/2011 5:36:22 PM

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madiba511412 reads

The ability to contain negative affect is an important skill for any therapist, and certainly comes in handy on the TER boards.

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Most likely he is posting here because he knows there is not a chance in hell that I would allow it on the GD board.

Pretty good call on your part though. Madiba loves to spew his psychobabble to anyone who will listed. Fortunately, very few are willing to listen. His chances of ever being unmoderated are nil as long as I am a mod, and you know I allow almost anything, Pri's dragging his feud from here onto the GD board is proof of that.

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GaGambler1046 reads

Don't try infer power that you don't possess.

If you had anything to offer, patients would come to see you, checkbook in hand. Instead you are here trying to have discussions with people that have no interest in what you have to say. I am sure there are other forums where your topic matter would be welcomed. It's been proven here time and again that TER is not one of those forums.

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madiba511311 reads

is to avoid the criminal justice system.

As a psychiatrist friend in a federal prison puts it, "if you don't want to do the time, don't do the crime".

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GaGambler1455 reads

The power I was talking about was your self flattering remark that you somehow threaten me.

Don't you fucking get it? You have no power, you are not threatening, you are simply an annoying insect that won't quit buzzing around my ear. Is that clear enough for you?

Now unless you have something interesting, and "on topic" to talk about, please go away

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Priapus531236 reads

I'm a adherant of cognitive behaviorism like yourself, but you violate its tenents by being condescending & falsely & stupidly jumping to conclusions.

If you ever belatedly got your degree, you'd make a lousy therapist,so I'd suggest a more suitable occupation, namely a fry cook at Mcdonald's.

Psychology is a passion of mine, but not the wrongheaded type that you post. Take your crap to a site frequented by drug-addled psychotics; they'd be more likely to swallow your line of bullshit.

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GaGambler2259 reads

If he somehow were able to land a job at McDonalds as a fry cook, he would probably insist on serving fish sandwiches to those customers who orddered hamburgers, because it was "better" for them. lmao

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Priapus531190 reads

& then we can both talk about our "flaws"

You can't cowrdly hide in your "chickenshit glass house" forever-----agoraphobia, perhaps ?!-------;)-------LMFAO !

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BreakerMorant1087 reads

to use the Soldier's and Sailor's Act as the rationale for Chicago residency as a tipping point where politics have to gone to the gutter? If that is the case I agree. The Soldier's and Sailor's Act intention was to protect those servicemembers who by Orders were asked to serve their country. The Act was not intended to protect a politician's ambitions. Rahm Emanuel had a choice. When you have Orders to report to duty, you have no choice.

Fortunately, a judicial ruling superseceded a Democratic Party bought Chicago Electoral Commission.

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Related Link: Rahm Emanuel ruling

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"The Law of the Few", or, as Gladwell states, "The success of any kind of social epidemic is heavily dependent on the involvement of people with a particular and rare set of social gifts."[3] According to Gladwell, economists call this the "80/20 Principle, which is the idea that in any situation roughly 80 percent of the 'work' will be done by 20 percent of the participants."[4] (see Pareto Principle) These people are described in the following ways:

Sounds like our tax code, where the top 20% are carrying almost the entire load.

He could be right, we are at the "Tipping Point"

I guess a good sequal to this book would be "Atlas Shrugged"

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