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	<description>Reflections of a Buddhist Physician</description>
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		<title>The Art of Microcompromise</title>
		<link>http://www.happinessinthisworld.com/2010/03/07/the-art-of-microcompromise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Lickerman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;What do you want for dinner?&#8221; I asked my wife.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t know,&#8221; she answered.  &#8220;What do you want?&#8221;
&#8220;How about hamburgers?&#8221;
&#8220;No, I don&#8217;t want hamburgers.&#8221;
&#8220;What do you want then?&#8221;
&#8220;I don&#8217;t know&#8230;pasta.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m a little sick of pasta,&#8221; I said.  &#8220;How about pizza?&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m really in the mood for pasta.&#8221;
Silence.  Then:   &#8220;Okay, pasta.&#8221;
WE ALL COMPROMISE EVERY DAY

I&#8217;ve observed, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trying New Things</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Lickerman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My wife and I are similar in a number of ways, but we&#8217;re completely opposite in how we feel about trying new things.  I resist and often fear it, while she positively craves it.  For as long as I can remember, I haven&#8217;t even liked trying new foods (an aversion my family and friends have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You Can Always Do More</title>
		<link>http://www.happinessinthisworld.com/2010/02/21/you-can-always-do-more/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:58:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Lickerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Big Questions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[altruism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Compassion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, a colleague and I were discussing the devastation in Haiti.  He told me he thought he should go down there to help out—but that he just couldn&#8217;t bring himself to do it.  His heart went out to the people suffering there, he said, but apparently not enough to get him to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting People To Change Their Minds</title>
		<link>http://www.happinessinthisworld.com/2010/02/14/getting-people-to-change-their-minds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 23:39:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Lickerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Relationships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[arguing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Changing another person&#8217;s mind is literally one of the hardest things to do in the world.  Think of how many conversations you&#8217;ve ever had in which one of the participants decided the other was right and abandoned their previous views altogether.  It almost never happens.
Why?  Because even though ideas flit in and out of our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why We Don&#8217;t Know Better</title>
		<link>http://www.happinessinthisworld.com/2010/02/07/why-we-dont-know-better/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:31:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Lickerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Relationships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[boundaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[problem solving]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[problems]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Several years ago, someone I know told me he was contemplating divorcing his wife.  I wasn&#8217;t surprised.  He&#8217;d been unhappy in the marriage for some time—and, in my opinion, with good reason:  his wife was jealous to the point of being neurotic, often behaving in ways that were shockingly inappropriate, offensive, and stress-inducing.
Or so he&#8217;d [...]]]></description>
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