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	<title>L.I.F.T. &#187; Life Lessons</title>
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		<title>Your Choice</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:44:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life Lessons]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are a few camps around the concept of free-will out there, and whether or not, and to what extent, we have or can exercise choice in our lives.
While I do believe that we can have free will, or free choice, I think that it is extremely difficult to achieve &#8211; even once, but especially [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Technology, Tools, and Progress</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 05:24:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life Lessons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[acheulean]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[colin pistell]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another great find by my friend Colin Pistell over at The Fifth Ape Blog got my wheels turning again&#8230;here&#8217;s my response to the TED talk Colin posted, which I&#8217;ve pasted below in this entry.  Thanks for the inspiration Colin!
I like the first part&#8230;reminds me of a book I just put on my wishlist:
But his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Irreasonable &#8211; You can&#8217;t save money if you watch TV</title>
		<link>http://leegertrained.com/irreasonable-you-cant-save-money-if-you-watch-tv</link>
		<comments>http://leegertrained.com/irreasonable-you-cant-save-money-if-you-watch-tv#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 04:06:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life Lessons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[commercial]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just saw a commercial for Progressive Auto Insurance on TV and had a stark realization:
You can&#8217;t save money if you watch TV.
It&#8217;s physically impossible.
Here&#8217;s why:
If you watch TV, you&#8217;re watching commercials created to sell things (such as auto insurance).
It costs money to create the commercials.
The companies get the money for the commercials from TV-viewers&#8217; purchases [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Action &#8211; The Master Cure</title>
		<link>http://leegertrained.com/action-the-master-cure</link>
		<comments>http://leegertrained.com/action-the-master-cure#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 18:22:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life Lessons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[improvement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mental]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[state]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Taoist cosmology/philosophy, there are four states leading to &#8220;being&#8221;:
Zero &#8211; &#8220;The Tao&#8221; or Huntun (and/or see this entry by Scott Phillips)/Wuji &#8211; formlessness, undifferentiation (&#8220;none&#8221;)
One &#8211; Condensation (&#8220;one&#8221;)
Two &#8211; Taiji &#8211; differentiation (&#8220;two&#8221;)
Three &#8211; The &#8220;two&#8221; give birth to three&#8230;not sure what this one is &#8220;specifically&#8221;
Four &#8211; Reality/&#8221;naming&#8221; &#8211; 10,000 things
Here&#8217;s a quote from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You Are Not So Conditioned</title>
		<link>http://leegertrained.com/you-are-not-so-conditioned</link>
		<comments>http://leegertrained.com/you-are-not-so-conditioned#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:24:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life Lessons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conditioning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[life]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[David McRaney has a great post on the You Are Not So Smart Blog.
He&#8217;s talking about conditioning, and our ability to act with &#8220;free will,&#8221; specifically in his post, with regards to diet.
McRaney mentions the work of BF Skinner, the &#8220;father&#8221; of Operant Conditioning.
&#8220;Skinner became convinced conditioning was the root of all behavior and didn’t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turn Obligation into Choice</title>
		<link>http://leegertrained.com/turn-obligation-into-choice</link>
		<comments>http://leegertrained.com/turn-obligation-into-choice#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 19:56:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life Lessons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Understanding Your Body]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[future]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://leegertrained.com/?p=1579</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have the tendency to think of things I ought to do, or ought to have done.  But that way of looking at events is very passive.
Instead, I can choose to look at those things as choices.
For instance, if I think &#8220;I should have done xyz&#8230;,&#8221; which leaves me in a position of regret. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crossing Wires, and &#8220;Progress&#8221; &#8211; The Fifth Ape Blog</title>
		<link>http://leegertrained.com/crossing-wires-and-progress-the-fifth-ape-blog</link>
		<comments>http://leegertrained.com/crossing-wires-and-progress-the-fifth-ape-blog#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 17:40:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life Lessons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[colin pistell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dysfunction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[movement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the fifth ape]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vladimir janda]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My good friend Colin Pistell over at the Fifth Ape blog put up a fantastic post about the notion of &#8220;crossed syndromes&#8221; in the body, and as a general metaphor for action.
To my knowledge, Vladimir Janda was the first researcher to recognize and categorize the crossed syndromes.  If you Google Janda&#8217;s name, you&#8217;ll find [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USDA &amp; APHIS must enforce the Law and protect Lolita! Oil will begin contaminating her water supply in 30 days!</title>
		<link>http://leegertrained.com/usda-aphis-must-enforce-the-law-and-protect-lolita-oil-will-begin-contaminating-her-water-supply-in-30-days</link>
		<comments>http://leegertrained.com/usda-aphis-must-enforce-the-law-and-protect-lolita-oil-will-begin-contaminating-her-water-supply-in-30-days#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 16:44:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life Lessons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marine]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please consider taking action to support the welfare of marine life at the Miami Seaquarium.  This is from a Facebook post by John Kielty:
To whom this may concern:
As you may be aware, Andrew Hertz, General Manager of Miami Seaquarium, Miami, FL has recently stated his intention to file a $3 to $5 million dollar [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forgetting the real to construct reality</title>
		<link>http://leegertrained.com/forgetting-the-real-to-construct-reality</link>
		<comments>http://leegertrained.com/forgetting-the-real-to-construct-reality#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 16:22:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life Lessons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Understanding Your Body]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[semiotics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[signs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[story]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This post is about the story (or stories) we tell ourselves.
I just read Semiotics: The Basics, by Dan Chandler.

It was a fascinating book.  Semiotics is the study of signs.  Not just &#8220;traffic signs,&#8221; but anything that signifies something else, and how that signification functions.
There were bits and pieces throughout the book that have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Prerequisite to You Living a Fulfilled Life</title>
		<link>http://leegertrained.com/the-prerequisite-to-you-living-a-fulfilled-life</link>
		<comments>http://leegertrained.com/the-prerequisite-to-you-living-a-fulfilled-life#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 01:33:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life Lessons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[expertise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fulfillment. happiness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[learning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[life]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There are several tendencies and assumptions we have in our culture, here in the United States.  Here are a few:
Being a specialist is better than being generalist
You have to have certain credentials in order to do certain things
Only experts are allowed to have opinions about things
People who publish things or appear in media (film, [...]]]></description>
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