โIn a 1994 Harvard study that examined people who had radically changed their lives, for instance, researchers found that some people had remade their habits after a personal tragedy, such as a divorce or a life-threatening illness. Others changed after they saw a friend go through something awful, the same way that Dungyโs players watched him struggle.
Just as frequently, however, there was no tragedy that preceded peopleโs transformations. Rather, they changed because they were embedded in social groups that made change easier. One woman said her entire life shifted when she signed up for a psychology class and met a wonderful group.ย โIt opened a Pandoraโs box,โ the woman told researchers.ย โI could not tolerate the status quo any longer. I had changed in my core.โ Another man said that he found new friends among whom he could practice being gregarious.ย โWhen I do make the effort to overcome my shyness, I feel that it is not really me acting, that itโs someone else,โ he said. But by practicing with his new group, it stopped feeling like acting. He started to believe he wasnโt shy, and then, eventually, he wasnโt anymore. When people join groups where change seems possible, the potential for that change to occur becomes more real. For most people who overhaul their lives, there are no seminal moments or life-altering disasters. There are simply communitiesโคsometimes of just one other personโคwho make change believable.
One woman told researchers her life transformed after a day spent cleaning toiletsโคand after weeks of discussing with the rest of the cleaning crew whether she should leave her husband.
โChange occurs among other people,โ one of the psychologists involved in the study, Todd Heatherton, told me.ย โIt seems real when we can see it in other peopleโs eyes.โ
The precise mechanisms of belief are little understood. No one is certain why a group encountered in a psychology class can convince a woman that everything is different, or why Dungyโs team came together after their coachโs son passed away. Plenty of people talk to friends about unhappy marriages and never leave their spouse; lots of teams watch their coaches experience adversity and never gel.ย
But we do know that for habits to permanently change, people must believe that change is feasible. The same process that makes AA so effectiveโคthe power of a group to teach individuals how to believeโคhappens whenever people come together to help one another change. Belief is easier when it occurs within a community.โ
โค The Power of Habit, Charles Duhigg
oh well, you know... *gesturing incoherently* as above, so below.
More profound when you consider that Doctors Without Borders rarely makes political statements.
In #UNSC mtg on Middle East, @MSF SG Christopher Lockyear says: "Israeli forces have attacked our convoys, detained our staff, bulldozed our vehicles, hospitals have been bombed and raided. And now for a second time, one of our staff shelters has been hit. This pattern of attacks is either intentional or indicative of reckless incompetence. Our colleagues in #Gaza are fearful that as I speak to you today, they will be punished tomorrow."
He adds: "The humanitarian response in Gaza today is an illusion. A convenient illusion that perpetuates a narrative that this war is being waged in line with international laws. Calls for humanitarian assistance have echoed across this chamber. Yet in Gaza we have less and less every day, less space, less medicine, less food, less water, less safety."
Specifically, Doctors Without Borders rarely makes political statements because doing so can jeopardize their ability to work in as many places as possible (including places controlled by incredibly shitty governments), and their one singular goal is to provide medical care wherever it's needed. They are extremely practical-minded as an organization and will, regardless of members' personal beliefs, avoid potentially offending people who have the ability to make their work more difficult/impossible. All they care about is getting doctors to the people who need the doctors. If they're doing this, it's because providing medical care in Palestine has become so difficult that calling on the global community for action gives them better odds of being able to do their jobs than avoiding offense to the Israeli government, possibly because offending the Israeli government can no longer make the situation worse than it already is.
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sorry for being a cunt sometimes itโs just that i am one
mappa really said ''we are going to create a couple that's so beautiful'' and we will never talk about them ever again.
HELP LMAOOOOOO
Javier Pรฉrez: Carroรฑa (2011)
Ten stuffed crows carefully placed on a shattered red chandelier to look as if they were feasting on a dead animal.ย
GOD. still the funniest transition in the show bar none
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Look. At. What. You. Guys. Did.
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