He tries to note the changes he's experiencing objectively, like a good geriatrician.
He comes close to imparting the fundamental fact that Freud is true not objectively, like Einstein, but subjectively, insofar as you recognize Freudian processes in your own life and mind.
Finally, we troubleshoot and look for room for improvement, often sat in a boardroom with a working prototype in front of us, studying it objectively like antique collectors or research scientists, looking for anything that might be considered a defect or a potential issue.
When we see and listen to thinking objectively like this, it can no longer consume our attention against our will.
There is no suitable measuring instrument to ensure the effect of training objectively like the processes, strategic decisions, skills and medical aspects of treatment.
Although I could despair by dwelling on how this child's formative years will take place under a Trump presidency, I'm trying to focus instead on all the stuff I can't wait for, like teaching him to throw a perfect spiral and forcing him to like objectively good bands through positive reinforcement (and if that doesn't work, bullying).
"I have no one and nothing left in Russia, so I have nothing to worry about", he says, adding that he sees the situation "objectively, not like a resident of the country but like any outside observer, the same way I would look at a place like China".
Chekhov's approach, expressed in a letter to a friend, is Frayn's too: the characters' opinions must be examined, Chekhov says, "like objects, like symptoms, entirely objectively, not attempting either to agree with them or to dispute them... the artist must not be the judge of his characters and what they are talking about, but merely an impartial witness".
"This label is our euphemism of saying half-dead without evidence of something objectively treatable, like pneumonia, or heart failure," Dr. Rosenbaum explained.
It doesn't sound, objectively speaking, like an altogether caring remark, but it has clearly served as a kind of power pack for Hackman, a galvanising moment that can be accessed whenever shame (or who knows what else?) is required.
Finally, "meaningfulness" is partly subjective, so tricky to measure, especially with just one question then again, there are activities that are more objectively meaningful (like donating significant time to volunteer work, for instance) which might require a certain amount of free time and financial freedom, and which could themselves open the way for healthy behaviors, and greater health.
