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		<title>Living In The Past</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 04:59:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I have been doing a little covert mindfulness study on my unsuspecting friends and acquaintances.  It centers around the notion that living in the past is a favorite past-time of we humans. But my study has an even more narrow focus.  We are all familiar with our tendency to get into the &#8220;woulda&#8217;, coulda&#8217;, shoulda&#8221; mode and wallow around in our pasts wishing we had behaved differently &#8211; a singularly unproductive activity to be sure.  But that is not the subject of my recent study. I have been observing how eagerly most people move from present to past when an error has been made (usually by the one being spoken to) and how a great deal of the present is invested in the past as the parties discuss what went wrong.  I am aware that a certain amount of &#8220;post-game analysis&#8221; is useful in preventing certain errors from occurring repeatedly. However, my unscientific, covert study convinces me that when these discussions occur between adults, the goal is not usually edification or avoidance of further errors.  It is something much less noble.  In many, if not most instances, it is an opportunity for the person pointing out the error to: [...]]]></description>
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