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Time-outs are particularly interesting. Mental models don’t include emotions (though they may include beliefs about emotions, like “I am angry”), but their momentum is coupled to emotions (you remember where you were during 9/11 because the emotions gave your throwaway mental model of your surroundings enough momentum for life). Waiting drains emotions from situations and associated mental models, thanks to drag from other mental models and emotionally neutral stimuli. Powerful emotions subside. Time-outs are not always reliable though. Waiting might actually give you time to reason through and discover more things that upset you, leading to a “getting angrier and angrier” effect.
“I’m very concerned that our society is much more concerned with information than wonder, in noise rather than silence. How do we encourage reflection? … Oh my, this is a noisy world.” https://t.co/27rddZUWEj
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"Roger knew he was doing something wrong with screaming and shouting and being upset, showing it too much," he said. "The other players are not stupid. How are they going to beat you? Not by playing tennis. They beat you mentally, so he learned that. But then he got too mellow, so that was not good, either, and all of a sudden he found a way."
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