When you cross a state line, enter a new time zone, register 1,000 miles, the impulse to celebrate — or at least to self-congratulate — is powerful.
Being a man, I also exercised the right to post-rationalise when immediately surprised, and to self-congratulate when challenged or moved.
Whether it is sales numbers, a promotion, what the MD said in the lift or even who fancies who, people can be relied upon to self-congratulate.
"There is a way in which food is used to either self-congratulate – you're a better person because you're eating like that – or to self-persecute, because you'll not allow yourself to eat what you want".
That was as close to saying, "I told you so," as she would get, and I realized how much more self-congratulating I might have been if the roles had been reversed and I had been the one to recommend the operation.
"We as people never self-congratulate ourselves," Jenn continues.
Your first option is a rooftop bar in Dalston, where loads of privately educated girls and boys are snapchatting themselves drinking mojitos and self-congratulating their liberal-minded perspectives.
Some viewers may be put off by the squalor on display while others may merely find themselves grateful for their own financial/social situation and/or self-congratulating in their acknowledgment of these sorts of living conditions.
Authors can use them to connect with the people who make up their core support network, do some self-congratulating in an artful, not-so-obvious way, and creatively market their book to new people in attendance.
There are few to no computer-based scaffolds that embed reminders to self-congratulate for successes.
The third strategy that provides and promotes informational feedback is embedding reminders to self-congratulate for successes.
