Build upon The Pyramid of Self Belief

Cynthia's Revels by Ben Jonson Web-Books.Com Cynthia's Revels Introduction . 3 Dedication . 22 Dramatis Personae 23 Induction . 24 ACT I 30 ACT II . 46 ACT III 59 ACT IV . 72 ACT V . 99 Glossary 149 Introduction THE greatest of English dramatists except Shakespeare, the first literary dictator and poet-laureate, a writer of verse, prose, satire, and criticism who most potently of all the men of his time affected the subsequent course of English letters: such was Ben Jonson, and as such his strong personality assumes an interest to us almost unparalleled, at least in his age. Ben Jonson came of the stock that was centuries after to give to the world Thomas Carlyle; for Jonson's grandfather was of Annandale, over the Solway, whence he migrated to England. Jonson's father lost his estate under Queen Mary, "having been cast into prison and forfeited." He entered the church, but died a month before his illustrious son was born, leaving his widow and child in poverty. Jonson's birthplace was Westminster, and the time of his birth early in 1573. He was thus nearly ten years Shakespeare's junior, and less well off, if a trifle better born. But Jonson did not profit even by this slight advantage. His mother married beneath her, a wright or bricklayer, and Jonson was for a time apprenticed to the trade. As a youth he attracted the attention of the famous antiquary, William Camden, then usher at Westminster School, and there the poet laid the solid foundations of his classical learning. Jonson always held Camden in veneration, acknowledging that to him he owed, "All that I am in arts, all that I know;" and dedicating his first dramatic success, "Every Man in His Humour," to him. It is doubtful whether Jonson ever went to either university, though Fuller says that he was "statutably admitted into St. John's College, Cambridge." He tells us that he took no degree, but was later "Master of Arts in both the universities, by their favour, not his study." When a mere youth Jonson enlisted as a soldier, trailing his pike in Flanders in the protracted wars of William the Silent against the Spanish. Jonson was a large and raw-boned lad; he became by his own account in time exceedingly bulky. In chat with his friend William Drummond of Hawthornden, Jonson told how "in his service in the Low Countries he had, in the face of both the camps, killed an enemy, and taken opima spolia from him;" and how "since his coming to England, being appealed to the fields, he had killed his adversary which had hurt him in the arm and whose sword was ten inches longer than his." Jonson's reach may have made up for the lack of his sword; certainly his prowess lost nothing in the telling. Obviously Jonson was brave, combative, and not averse to talking of himself and his doings. In 1592, Jonson returned from abroad penniless. Soon after he married, almost as early and quite as imprudently as Shakespeare. Build upon The Pyramid of Self-Belief Build upon The Pyramid of Self-Belief Bởi: Joe Tye “You have to find the beliefs that support your outcome – the beliefs that get you where you want to go If your beliefs don’t that, you have to throw them out and try something new.” Anthony Robbins: The Way to Peak Personal Achievement The Pyramid of Self-Belief Belief is a force of nature, like gravity or magnetism Unlike gravity, belief is subject to mental control By using techniques of affirmation and visualization you can boost your energy, enhance your belief, and wire yourself for success Self-belief is developed at four levels Imagine a pyramid, with self-concept at the foundation, self-image and self-esteem in between, and self-confidence at the top Each element rests upon, but also interacts with, those below In other words, working on changing any element of the pyramid will cascade through the whole Level One, Self-Concept: An underlying awareness, either implicit or explicit, of your role as a human being in this universe What you see when you look around you: a world of scarcity and risk, or a world of abundance and opportunity? What is your concept of a higher power, and of your relationship to that higher power? Questions like these cannot be answered in an absolute sense, but rather depend largely on what you choose to see as you look around you and within you 1/2 Build upon The Pyramid of Self-Belief Level Two, Self-Image: What you see when you look in the mirror? A winner? A victim? You will never on a sustained basis exceed your self-image.If your self-image is that of being a victim, no matter what happens, you will always be a victim On the other hand, the self-perceived winner who loses everything will eventually find a way to get it all back, and probably sooner rather than later Level Three, Self-Esteem:Do you like what you see when you look in the mirror? People with high self-esteem get a lot done and make substantial contributions; people with low self-esteem tend not to Self-esteem is not arrogance – quite to the contrary, arrogant people are often hiding low self-esteem: the only way they can feel good about themselves is by making other people feel bad about themselves Level Four, Self-Confidence:Do you believe that you have skills and resources to meet the challenges of your life and to effectively pursue your dreams and goals, or you are reasonably certain that you can obtain whatever you need but are now lacking Genuine self-confidence is usually quiet, as opposed to the loud boastfulness of arrogance You are not born with self-confidence, it is earned through experience One of my favorite definitions of selling is that it is the transference of belief from one person to another The most important sale you will ever make in your life is selling you on yourself; once you’ve made that sale, all the others will be much easier Building upon the four levels of The Pyramid of Self-Belief will help you make that sale In his book Live Your Dreams Les Brown wrote: “I believe the most important thing you can sell people is a belief in themselves.” That is also, I believe, one of the most important opportunities of leadership – to help people look in the metaphorical mirror and not just see who’s there now looking back at them, but to see who could be there if they could walk through the fears that are holding them back, stop listening to the nagging voice of negative self-talk, and really live their values 2/2 [...]... § 3 The law of self-determination and the criteria for statehood: the unlawful proclamation of independence § 3.1 The prohibition of abuse of the right of selfdetermination: the requirement of fulfilment of the conditions of the qualified right of secession § 3.2 Respect for the right of internal self-determination of peoples 401 402 402 402 405 406 408 414 418 419 423 Table of Contents § 4 The proper... law contain any rules and principles on the basis of which the formation and recognition of some entities, and the ignoring and non-recognition of others, can be explained? In the light of the aforementioned developments, the main question of this study is: when does an entity qualify as a State under international law, and what, if any, is the role of the law of self-determination in the process of. .. including the birth of Bangladesh, the crisis in the former Yugoslavia and attempts at secession within the territory of the former Soviet Union Part III is entitled 'Statehood and Self-Determination' and consists of Chapter 8 The purpose of this Chapter is to identify the precise role of the law of self-determination in the process of the formation of States under contemporary international law In the Precis,... existence of an ineffective government: modern state practice and the role of the right of self-determination § 2.1 The cases of Georgia and Moldova § 2.1.1 The Republic of Georgia § 2.1.2 The Republic of Moldova § 2.2 Observations § 2.3 External self-determination and the statehood criterion of 'government': juridical and empirical statehood § 2.4 The special case of the Republic of BosniaHerzegovina § 3 The. .. leads to a formulation of the raison d'être and main objective of the principle of self-determination insofar as this may be deduced from the development of the concept in the said period In Chapter 6, the analysis of the law of self-determination is taken a step further In this Chapter, the question of whether or not the right of self-determination extends beyond decolonization and if so, in what form... subject of the right of unilateral secession as a criterion for statehood § 5 The formation of States, self-determination and recognition § 6 Conclusions xi 425 426 437 PRECIS § 1 The formation of States, traditional criteria for statehood and recognition § 2 The obligation of non-recognition of Explaining Bank Failures in the United States: The Role of Self-Fulfilling Prophecies, Systemic Risk, Banking Regulation, and Contagion Nils Herger Working Paper 08.04 This discussion paper series represents research work-in-progress and is distributed with the intention to foster discussion. The views herein solely represent those of the authors. No research paper in this series implies agreement by the Study Center Gerzensee and the Swiss National Bank, nor does it imply the policy views, nor potential policy of those institutions. Explaining Bank Failures in the United States: The Role of Self-Fulfilling Prophecies, Systemic Risk, Banking Regulation, and Contagion ∗ Nils Herger, Study Center Gerzensee † November 2008 Abstract Using count data on the number of bank failures in US states during the 1960 to 2006 period, this paper endeavors to establish how far sources of economic risk (recessions, high interest rates, inflation) or differences in solvency and branching regulation can explain some of the fragility in banking. Assuming that variables are predetermined, lagged values provide instruments to absorb potential endogeneity between the number of bank failures and economic and regulatory conditions. Results suggest that bank failures are not merely self-fulfilling prophecies but relate systematically to inflation as well as to policy changes in banking regulation. Furthermore, in terms of statistical and economic significance, the distribution and development of bankruptcies across US states depends crucially on past bank failures suggesting that contagion provides an important channel through which banking crises emerge. JEL classification: G21, G28 Keywords: bank failures, banking crisis, banking regulation, count data 1 Introduction By accepting deposits that are withdrawable on demand and issuing loans that will mature at a specific future date, banks 1 constitute the predominant financial institution for allocating funds across a broad range of saving and borrowing firms or households. Insofar as fric- tions such as imperfect information about the creditworthiness of borrowers beset the direct exchange of funds on financial markets (Stiglitz and Weiss, 1981), competitive advantages accrue to specialized intermediaries pooling the short-term liquidity risks of savers (Bryant, 1980; Diamond and Dybvig, 1983) and exploiting scale economies in monitoring investors with long-term profit opportunities (Leland and Pyle, 1977; Diamond, 1984). However, several factors exacerbate the risk of bankruptcies 2 with a banking industry committed to satisfying the disparate financial needs of savers and investors. Firstly, banks engage heavily in intertemporal transactions and are thus particularly exposed to unexpected economic and political events, which render the future payment pattern anything but certain. Secondly, the core business of banking, 3 e.g. the current transformation of highly liquid liabilities into specific assets, rests on the belief that, within a large pool of depositors and borrowers, an ∗ Financial support of the Ecoscientia and the Swiss National Science Foundation is acknowledged with thanks. † Contact details: Dorfstrasse 2, P.O. Box 21, CH-3115 Gerzensee, Switzerland (nils.herge 676 Journal of Marketing Research Vol. XLV (December 2008), 676–689 © 2008, American Marketing Association ISSN: 0022-2437 (print), 1547-7193 (electronic) *Anat Keinan is Assistant Professor of Marketing, Harvard Business School, Harvard University (e-mail: akeinan@hbs.edu). Ran Kivetz is Professor of Business, Columbia Business School, Columbia University (e-mail: rk566@columbia.edu). The authors are grateful for helpful com- ments and suggestions received from participants in seminars at Columbia University, Yale University, the University of Pennsylvania, the Associa- tion for Consumer Research Conference, the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Conference, the Society of Consumer Psychology Con- ference, the Marketing in Israel Conference, the Society for Judgment and Decision Making Conference, the Behavioral Decision Research in Man- agement Conference, and the 2007 Invitational Choice Symposium. ANAT KEINAN and RAN KIVETZ* The self-control literature is premised on the notion of myopia (short- sightedness or present-biased preferences) and assumes that choosing vices generates regret. An alternative perspective suggests that consumers often suffer from a reverse self-control problem—namely, excessive farsightedness and overcontrol, or “hyperopia.” This research examines whether consumers can foresee the detrimental long-term consequences of hyperopia. Five studies demonstrate that anticipating long-term regret relaxes self-control and motivates consumers to counteract their righteousness. Consumers are more likely to select indulgences and luxuries when they judge the longer-term regrets of others, anticipate their own regret in the distant future, and reflect on their regret regarding an actual decision made in the more distant past. The article concludes with two field experiments that examine the effect of anticipatory regret on real consumer purchases at a shopping mall and during Thanksgiving. These experiments demonstrate that anticipat- ing long-term regret leads consumers to buy pleasurable products rather than practical necessities and to spend more on shopping. The implications for marketers and consumers are discussed. Keywords : hyperopia, self-control, regret, consumer behavior Remedying Hyperopia: The Effects of Self- Control Regret on Consumer Behavior Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again. —Robert A. Heinlein Many purchase and consumption decisions involve an intrapersonal struggle between consumers’ righteous, pru- dent side and their indulgent, pleasure-seeking side. Whereas purchasing and consuming utilitarian necessities and virtues (e.g., a practical car, a healthful food item) is considered responsible and farsighted, yielding to hedonic temptations (e.g., buying a luxury car, eating a chocolate cake) is viewed as impulsive and wasteful. The perceived precedence of virtue and necessity over vice and luxury is at least as old as ancient Greek civilization. (Plato and Aris- totle argue that reason ought to rule appetitive and passion- ate elements.) Similarly, consumer self-control research emphasizes the importance of exercising willpower and controlling desires (e.g., Hoch and Loewenstein 1991; Prelec and Herrnstein 1992). Much of this research has been premised on the notion that the purchase and con- sumption of vices generates regret (e.g., Baumeister 2002; Read, Loewenstein, and Kalyanaraman 1999). According to this perspective, consumers are better off in the long run if they choose virtue over vice, work over leisure, and utilitar- ian necessities over hedonic luxuries. However, recent research challenges The Power of Self-Coaching The Five Essential Steps to Creating the Life You Want Joseph Luciani, Ph.D. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ffirs.qxd 5/21/04 11:28 AM Page i fpref.qxd 5/21/04 11:32 AM Page x The Power of Self-Coaching The Five Essential Steps to Creating the Life You Want Joseph Luciani, Ph.D. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ffirs.qxd 5/21/04 11:28 AM Page i Copyright © 2004 by Joseph Luciani, Ph.D. All rights reserved Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey Published simultaneously in Canada Design and composition by Navta Associates, Inc. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmit- ted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scan- ning, or otherwise, except as permitted under Section 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright Clear- ance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, (978) 750-8400, fax (978) 646- 8600, or on the web at www.copyright.com. Requests to the Publisher for permission should be addressed to the Permissions Department, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030, (201) 748-6011, fax (201) 748-6008. Limit of Liability/Disclaimer of Warranty: While the publisher and the author have used their best efforts in preparing this book, they make no representations or warranties with respect to the accuracy or completeness of the contents of this book and specifically dis- claim any implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. No warranty may be created or extended by sales representatives or written sales materials. The advice and strategies contained herein may not be suitable for your situation. You should consult with a professional where appropriate. Neither the publisher nor the author shall be liable for any loss of profit or any other commercial damages, including but not limited to special, incidental, consequential, or other damages. For general information about our other products and services, please contact our Customer Care Department within the United States at (800) 762-2974, outside the United States at (317) 572-3993 or fax (317) 572-4002. Wiley also publishes its books in a variety of electronic formats. Some content that appears in print may not be available in electronic books. For more information about Wiley products, visit our web site at www.wiley.com. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Luciani, Joseph J. The power of self-coaching : the five essential steps to creating the life you want / Joseph Luciani. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-471-46360-4 1. Self-actualization (Psychology) I. Title. BF637.S4L83 2004 158.1—dc22 2004005661 Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 ffirs.qxd 5/21/04 11:28 AM Page ii iii Acknowledgments v Preface vii Introduction: Choose to Change, Choose the Life You Want 1 Part I The Promise of Self-Coaching 1. Self-Coaching: Get the Power 17 2. Choosing Happiness, Dropping Misguided Goals 30 Part II Your Problems: The Roots of Change 3. Why Are You Insecure? 51 4. Choose Not to Worry 62 5. Stop Controlling Life 75 6. Reflexive Thinking 95 7. Stop Insulating and Avoiding 107 8. A Perfect Way to Be Miserable 122 9. No More Lies 137 10. Trust Yourself .. .Build upon The Pyramid of Self- Belief Level Two, Self- Image: What you see when you look in the mirror? A winner? A victim? You will never on a sustained basis exceed your self- image.If your self- image... others will be much easier Building upon the four levels of The Pyramid of Self- Belief will help you make that sale In his book Live Your Dreams Les Brown wrote: “I believe the most important thing... back at them, but to see who could be there if they could walk through the fears that are holding them back, stop listening to the nagging voice of negative self- talk, and really live their values