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The Actions That Go on Your Calendar For the purposes of organization, as I’ve said, there are two basic kinds of actions: those that must be done on a certain day and/or at a particular time, and those that just need to be done as soon as you can get to them, around your other calendar items (some perhaps with a final due date). Calendared action items can be either time specific (e.g., “10:00–11:00 meet with Jim”) or day specific (“Call Rachel Tuesday to see if she got the proposal”).
Getting Things Done
David Allen
Individuals who have a smaller frontal pole are likely to be less able to control their behaviour, less able to take the long view, less able to forgive friends who offend them, less able to distinguish accidental from intentional actions. It is the ability to inhibit immediate actions combined with theory of mind allowing us to predict the future that makes social life, as well as friendships, possible.
When Girard writes that “religious thinking” has the goal of practical action, he is not disparaging religious belief in any way—he is referring to the sacrificial mentality that people bring to problem solving. Nearly all people are religious in the sense that they subconsciously believe that sacrifice brings peace.
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