Smart learners know this and redefine "problems" as opportunities to learn, to test oneself, and to grow.
I suspect that he recognized that day a personal escape route, a way to vent the restless need to test oneself that often inflames the young.
But the impulse to prepare oneself for such futures has analogues and origins, it is contended, in old Christian ideas of penance and preparation for the coming Kingdom.
For instance, because of social desirability bias — the impulse to present oneself in a positive light — people are likely to say no to a statement like "I feel burned out". It puts the focus on them rather than the firm.
Our pleasure at having duped audiences with the realism of our film faded when we paused long enough to consider what such an impulse to associate oneself with a fictitious event really meant.
In the world of Chinese retail, the area where you most strongly feel the absence of older forms of identity, and the frenetic impulse to reinvent oneself, is the luxury-goods market.
Since launching in 2013 with a core audience in Moscow, it has covered topics from feminism to body image and "female misogyny", the impulse to distance oneself from women in order to succeed in a man's world.
In this sense, the novel is very contemporary, I suppose, but it is also classical in its delineation of the youthful impulse to define oneself; among other things, I was thrilled to read a book in which the main character doesn't own a cell phone and no one writes emails.
The use of guns wasn't about armed attack but rather the human impulse to protect oneself and one's family.As a veteran of the civil-rights movement, what do you see as its modern-day struggle?In the South, we thought of ourselves as being involved in the freedom movement.
Mechanical principles of action are what we would call instincts, such as the unreflective impulse to protect oneself from perceived harm.
I understand where the impulse to protect oneself comes from.
