The act of avoiding something itself is fairly unloaded, but the guilt and shame that comes after makes you put it off again, which leads to more guilt and shame – and on the horrid cycle goes, until the simple task of texting your aunt back is now tantamount to dumping a partner of eight years.
We next considered the possibility that in our task P cues may attract more attention than N cues because monkeys find the act of avoiding an aversive outcome inherently rewarding, in which case the P cue may not be viewed as being aversive.
1) Every time you lose 50percentt, it takes 100percentt gain to get back to even, and, 2) while "low" interest gains look unimpressive at first glance, the simple act of avoiding losing years means that, in the end of the 12-year cycle, the conservative strategy outperforms the aggressive one by a long shot, since the principal has continually compounded without dramatic fluctuation.
And yet by the simple conscious act of avoiding commercial pressures, we're forced to consider them – and so the spontaneity and purity of the conversation is destroyed.
Dyson told the Guardian: "The Dyson family business paid £330m in UK tax over the past three years, clearly not the act of a company avoiding its fair share of tax.
Mel, the book's narrator, is lying in a local hospital that lacks a psychiatric staff, scrambling to write notes on a legal pad that will make sense of his situation and the trajectory of his life, grasping for words because words are all he has left and because the act of writing helps him avoid the shame of his inactivity.
Whether a profoundly endangered species that always seems to go out of its way to avoid the act of sexual congress really needs extra displacement activities is a matter for those better versed in panda husbandry than I.
The actions of the participants actually mattered, and they behaved accordingly – they needed to wait, or withdraw altogether, in order to stave off or avoid the act of administering the shock and the unpleasant consequences that would follow from this.
This rationalization of care must allow to think the action before or after the fact, not in the surprise of the act and avoid the occurrence of an adverse event (AE).
In U.S. slang, "skimming" is the act of failing to declare certain income to avoid tax payment.
Gandhi took the vow of brahmacharya, or celibacy, which among Hindus is considered the ultimate act of self-sacrifice, the surest way of avoiding all temptation and of finding God.
