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Life without excuses: What would that be like?
Life doesn't require excuses, but I imagine everyone's got a bushel-basketful anyway.
It's like "The Wizard of Oz" lyrics ... "because, because, because, because, be-CAAUUSE..."
Life without excuses: What would that be like?
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It is obvious that excuses paralyzes self-improvement. There is even evidence that extreme recoveries from brain damage and other severe mental disorders, unexplainable by conventional neurology, are linked to tolerant environments (references: "Mind, Brain and Education" by Kurt Fischer and Christina Hinton, "The brain that changes itself" by Norman Doidge). However, the existence of the nocebo effect (the destructive version of placebo) shows that "tolerance" on the lines of "do not blame him/her because he/she cannot help it" does not work for this purpose. It must be radical non-blaming, which means avoiding to blame without excuses so that no excuses at all have to be used. And considering the stupidity that is destroying the world, such an intellectual leap is exactly what the world needs.
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