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2016
Oct
‘Newton tercentenary conference’
‘Competitiveness’
‘The universe having neither a beginning nor an end’
‘A potential catastrophe’
‘Hasty’
‘Gratifying mine’
‘Should be said’
‘Ball’
‘Next opportunity of speaking’
‘Chooses to be seen’
‘Taken their seats’
‘Seated Himself’
Sep
‘Till the morrow’
‘Willfully Misunderstand’
‘A natural defect’
‘Pride’
‘…and uncommon I hope it will continue’
‘By the bye’
‘Excellent library’
‘Provoke’
‘Opinions which you choose to call mine’
‘Approbation’
‘The indirect boast’
‘Convey no ideas at all’
‘Blots’
‘Write ill’
‘Mend my own’
‘By purchase than by imitation’
‘Matrimony’
‘She continued to declare that she would’
‘Give over’
Aug
‘A brighter, calmer day might one day dawn.’
‘Problems’
‘Socially disadvantaged’
‘Jubilant’
‘Understanding vulnerability’
‘Stand for anything in life’
‘Run aground’
‘Transitional object’
‘To be shattered’
‘Performance of being herself’
Jul
Self-investments
‘Not care a fig’
Jun
‘Dyslexics’
‘I see tars!’
‘Hand’
May
‘Harshness’
‘Unhand’
‘The past is present now and here’
‘Non-doing’
‘The way you feel’
‘Seeing things clearly’
‘Live in a dream present’
‘Let go of trying to get anywhere at all’
‘With Resolution’
‘Stopping’
‘Withstand’
‘Metal tube’
‘Plan for action and implicit motivation’
‘Below the conscious realm’
‘Wander’
‘Osborn’
‘Kruger’
‘Craftsperson’
‘Small audience’
‘Lucky random event’
‘Build to last’
‘Einstellung effect’
‘Einstellung effect’
‘Slow down time by increasing attention’
‘Experience of novelty’
‘Talent’
‘Find the answer to a question already known’
‘Discomfort’
‘Multiple cultures’
‘Craft of sitting and movement’
‘Zen mind’
‘No end to this practice’
‘Travel’
‘Creativity is the opposite of insanity’
‘The creation of a human connection’
‘Cheat the process’
‘Overjustification’
‘Quality experiences’
‘Little daily experiences’
‘Walking on the beach’
‘Purchase Experiences’
‘Walk outside’
‘Better stories’
‘Improving’
‘Tecnhique. Goals. Feedback’
‘Thinking about success’
‘Focus muscle’
‘Train of thought’
‘Object of its focus’
‘Embrace effort’
‘Polar bear swim’
‘As the saying goes’
‘Mettle’
‘Hobbies’
‘Hobby’
‘Rewards’
‘Forming a path’
‘Gaming’
‘Learning’
‘Dopamine’
‘Dopamine is released before a reward’
‘How it will help’
‘Start With Why’
‘Project milestones’
‘Fault in progress’
‘Dwell on the past’
‘Intrinsic Motivation’
‘Motivation Follows’
‘Dread of doing a task’
‘Put off’
‘Procrastination’
‘Every tomorrow’
‘Unscrambled’
‘Entropy’
‘Discipline’
‘Going faster’
‘The love of money’
‘GDP value’
‘Rationalization’
‘Struggle’
‘Problems will disappear’
‘Scarcity’
‘Nothing to lose’
‘Needs to do’
‘Rote tasks’
‘Cost-effective’
‘Enjoyment paradox’
‘Bathwater’
‘Transactional’
‘Beforehand’
‘Overdue focus’
‘Being asked to assume’
‘Low Standards’
‘No!’
‘Belittle Your Ambitions’
Apr
‘Blessed with the perspicacity to see behind that mask’
‘Under a sheet of ice’
‘Bequeathed’
‘Ennobling and liberating’
‘Exclusive twosome’
‘Now hesitant façade’
‘Lovelorn’
‘Vicinity’
‘Recency bias’
‘Shift focus’
‘Misery to magic’
‘Mental river’
‘Loops’
‘Without trying’
‘Luck’
‘Push through’
‘There must be someone equally courageous behind him or he simply would not be there.’
‘Please notice me too!’
‘Total obsession with science’
‘Darkening private face’
‘Silent beauty’
‘Pay up’
Mar
‘Science and religion’
‘I not we’
‘Black holes are not as black as they seem’
‘Raucous chatter’
‘French’
‘The privilege of rediscovering the world’
‘Raison d’être’
‘Scant time’
‘Dyslexia’
‘Starting school early’
‘Too old to learn to play’
‘Trappings’
‘Simply too young’
‘The goddess of Physics’
‘Depict depression’
‘Walls might be listening’
‘More equal’
‘Ostentatiously indulgent lifestyle’
‘Discourage the customers’
‘neither place could convey the essence of holiness’
‘Kip Thorne’
‘Stalin’s steps in Warsaw’
‘Avoid seeing the monument itself’
‘Anathema’
‘Copernican Revolution’
‘Eased off’
‘Mentally roam the universe’
‘No room for psychological problems’
‘Age’
‘Tired but resilient’
‘Tickle the toes’
‘Shipwrecked sailor’
‘Dropped the sandwiches’
‘Some faint semblance of normality’
‘Faint semblance of normality’
‘Death’
‘Dry leaves’
‘Psychological and emotional detritus’
‘This thing (presumably our marriage)’
Feb
‘Ballroom dancing’
‘Fund of knowledge’
‘As good as his word’
‘A mint of money’
‘Physics widows’
Jan
‘Attention’
‘Self-war’
‘Surfing the urge’
‘Preoccupied’
‘Compulsively ambitious’
‘Warlord era China’
‘The Heavy Burden of Responsibility’
‘Abdicate’
‘The Most Photographed Celebrity’
‘Lasting friends’
‘Internal Timing Window’
‘Social Jet Lag’
‘In raptures’
‘Success’
‘Implicitly’
‘Mundane problems’
‘Notice tension’
‘You can handle these difficult thoughts and feelings’
‘Suppression increases the symptoms’
‘Permission to think a thought reduces the likelihood of thinking it.’
‘Control’
‘If you panic and push the thought out of your mind, it is going to come back. And when it does, it will return with more authority.’
‘Trying not to think about something guarantees that it is never far from your mind.’
‘The expected progression of events’
‘Eccentricity’
‘Perturbed’
‘Our sad plight’
‘A tradition of non-communication’
‘Ballet’
‘Gait’
‘Array of possibilities’
‘Dodgem ride’
‘Doesn’t matter’
‘Ventured in’
‘Young enough to be immortal’
‘Conscripted’
‘Sense of security’
‘Japanese occupation’
‘…so everyone adjusted’
‘Kwa Geok Choo, Lee Kuan Yew’s wife’
‘Improvisation’
‘A Singapore’
‘Scarcer ’
‘English’
‘Hated Conqueror’
‘Spectacle of medieval punishment’
‘Perished’
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