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Old 05-08-2005, 06:44   #37
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Originally Posted by FrontSight
I think it's harder to consciously realize when a situation is slowly going wrong or getting slowly worse. One way is to take a mental checkpoint and assess, "If [this situation] were to get worse, what would it be like?"

And vice versa, so you can try to make it go in the opposite direction. Thinking about that always helps me to take action whereas otherwise I might just adjust to the new [worse] situation and rationalize that it's not actually worse.

FrontSight
I'm going to go drink like 3 more cups of coffee and re-read this.

[Walking away, shaking head, asking myself, WTF was all that about?]
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