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	<title>The Official Website of Susan Smalley, PhD. » blog</title>
	
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		<title>Willful Ignorance: Penn State, Don’t Ask – Don’t Tell, and Others</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:39:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to James Carse, Professor Emeritus at NYU, there are three kinds of ignorance: ordinary ignorance, willful ignorance, and higher ignorance. The first is the very essence of learning &#8212; you move from unknowing to knowing &#8212; like learning history, science, facts and trivia. The second type, willful ignorance, is when you know something but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Memory Challenge</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 08:36:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other night I discovered a new game for the &#8216;over 50&#8242; crowd. I was at a dinner party and a group of us were chatting about who knows what when suddenly I was trying to remember the name of the actor who starred in a 1970s (or &#8217;80s) television cop show and had not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What to Do When Spiritual Complacency Sets In</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 19:23:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found myself saying words the other day that shocked me. “I’m not seeking right now” were in response to a friend’s questioning me about my interest (or lack thereof) in meeting her friend, a South American shaman who guides people in self-investigation. That line, “I’m not seeking right now” came up from an unconscious [...]]]></description>
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		<title>True Blood and True Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 19:33:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just spent the week with Sookie Stackhouse in Bon Temps, Louisiana. I had never seen an episode of True Blood until six days ago when I watched episode 1 season 1 on HBO GO on my iPad. Yesterday, I left Sookie screaming in the finale of Season 4. Why was I sucked into Bon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Changing Face of Parenting</title>
		<link>http://www.suesmalley.com/2011/08/02/the-changing-face-of-parenting-4/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=the-changing-face-of-parenting-4</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 20:28:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My days of ‘hands-on’ parenting (the parenting that takes place between infancy and 21 years of age or so) are over. Our youngest of three kids just turned 21 leaving my husband and I in a new ‘phase’ of life. The all consuming enterprise of hands-on parenting changes radically when adult children take over the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Our Beliefs Shape Our Actions in the World</title>
		<link>http://www.suesmalley.com/2011/03/02/how-our-beliefs-shape-our-actions-in-the-world-4/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=how-our-beliefs-shape-our-actions-in-the-world-4</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 20:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day a friend told me a peculiar phenomenon: take your birthyear (e.g., 1955=55) and add it to your age (you will be this year, eg. 56); they will always add up to 111. My friends tried it and it was true. I knew the math behind it was simple, but my friend’s interpretation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Make Mistakes: Life Has a Way of Righting Itself</title>
		<link>http://www.suesmalley.com/2010/12/27/make-mistakes-life-has-a-way-of-righting-itself-4/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=make-mistakes-life-has-a-way-of-righting-itself-4</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Dec 2010 20:32:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our three children are now in their 20s and exploring the diverse roads of life. By that I mean they are making decisions about whether to go to graduate school, what jobs to seek, and what career trajectories they might pursue. It is a time of decision-making, but unlike decisions of the past, these are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas: It Is Love, Actually</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Dec 2010 20:34:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the holidays approaching, many of us travel to be among our families, distant in physical proximity so often today. As we do, it may be worthwhile to ponder the foundation of family. A family is much like a building. A building of strength has a foundation strong enough to bear the challenges of life [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mind Body Medicine: Can What You Think and Feel Affect Your Physical Health?</title>
		<link>http://www.suesmalley.com/2010/10/27/mind-body-medicine-can-what-you-think-and-feel-affect-your-physical-health-4/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=mind-body-medicine-can-what-you-think-and-feel-affect-your-physical-health-4</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 20:38:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.suesmalley.com/?p=908</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[How you think and feel emotionally can contribute to your physical health and well-being — it’s just that simple. The list of scientific studies demonstrating that point comes from diverse fields of study including medicine, neuroscience, immunology, genetics, psychiatry and psychology. Integrative medicine is fast becoming the examplar of approaches to healthcare based on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Well-Being Is Not the Absence of Suffering</title>
		<link>http://www.suesmalley.com/2010/10/25/why-well-being-is-not-the-absence-of-suffering-4/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=why-well-being-is-not-the-absence-of-suffering-4</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 20:39:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.suesmalley.com/?p=911</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In “The Road Less Traveled,” M. Scott Peck wrote, “Life is difficult.” Whether you are rich or poor, old or young, male or female, religious or atheist, employed or unemployed, or a politician, doctor, lawyer, teacher, parent, son, daughter, sister or brother, we all face difficulties in life. I once thought that understanding the genetic [...]]]></description>
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