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John McCain withdraws support for Donald Trump over groping boasts
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Former nominee is biggest name to withdraw support over remarks about groping and unwanted advances as Ryan avoids subject and candidate appears before supporters in New York
Senator John McCain of Arizona withdrew his endorsement of Donald Trump on Saturday, in one of the most prominent defections among Republicans over the presidential nominees behavior toward women.
The 2008 Republican presidential nominee issued a statement declaring it impossible to continue to offer even conditional support for Trump, in the wake of leaked video and audio showing Trump boasting about making sexual advances toward women without their consent.
Cindy and I will not vote for Donald Trump, McCain said in a statement that included his wife. I have never voted for a Democratic presidential candidate and we will not vote for Hillary Clinton. We will write in the name of some good conservative Republican who is qualified to be president.
Shortly after McCain released his statement, Trump made a surprise appearance outside Trump Tower in New York City. Early on Saturday evening, the billionaire emerged from his skyscraper, where he had been in crisis talks and debate preparation all day, to greet a group of 100 ardent supporters who had been demonstrating outside the building since morning.
Trump shook his fist in the air, waved and pointed, without saying anything. He then went quickly back into the building.
His appearance raised a huge commotion among those gathered on Fifth Avenue in midtown Manhattan, prompting cheers and chants of Trump for president and USA! USA!
One onlooker, Karen Stecher from Windsor, Canada, said: Its ridiculous. Ive seen a crowd react to a star in LA but it wasnt like this. This is like entertainment but its scary because of the anger and aggression.
Earlier in the afternoon Trumps wife, Melania, released a statement in which she said Trumps comments were offensive but asked the American people to see that her husband had the heart and mind of a leader.
Reached with a request for comment about the mounting controversy surrounding her fathers campaign, Ivanka Trump hung up on the Guardian.
McCain, locked in a tough re-election battle in Arizona, condemned Trumps comments after the release of the 11-year-old Access Hollywood recording on Friday but initially stopped short of rescinding his endorsement. As leading Republican officials launched an exodus from Trump in the 24 hours that followed, he faced quickly mounting pressure.
In his statement on Saturday, he said he had wanted to support the candidate our party nominated and respect the Republican primary process.
He was not my choice, but as a past nominee I thought it important I respect the fact that Donald Trump won a majority of the delegates by the rules our party set. I thought I owed his supporters that deference, McCain wrote.
McCains Senate race could determine whether the Republican party maintains its precarious control of the chamber. Other Republicans who disavowed their support for Trump on Saturday included Senate candidates Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire and Joe Heck of Nevada.
Some Republicans formally called on Trump to step aside and allow his running mate, Indiana governor Mike Pence, to become the partys standard-bearer with just 30 days left until election day. Such voices included John Thune of South Dakota, the third-ranking Republican in the Senate.
Democrats swiftly rejected the desertion of Trump by those who had endorsed him as political calculation pointing out that Republicans had stood by the former reality TV star even as he disparaged Mexican immigrants, Muslims, prisoners of war, the disabled and the Gold Star parents of an Iraq war hero and repeatedly made crude statements about women.
McCain made it clear a long time ago: he is no longer a straight-talking maverick, Ann Kirkpatrick, the Democratic congresswoman challenging McCain for his seat, said in a statement. He missed the chance to show political courage and lead. He failed that test. Now, its too late, John McCain. The people of Arizona deserve better.
Robert De Niro: Id like to punch Donald Trump in the face
McCain was the first prominent Republican to criticize Trumps continued insistence that the Central Park Five, five young African Americans wrongfully convicted of rape in New York City in 1989, were guilty.
Despite the fact that the mens convictions were overturned by DNA evidence, Trump insisted on Friday that the five, whom he called for to be executed at the time, were still guilty, pointing out to CNN that the youths confessed at the time. Trump did not mention that they were beaten by police and that New York City paid a $41m settlement.
On Saturday, Pence seemed to leave the crisis entirely in Trumps hands. In a statement, Pence said: As a husband and father I was offended by the words and actions described by Donald Trump in the 11-year-old video released yesterday.
I do not condone his remarks and cannot defend them. I am grateful that he has expressed remorse.
Pence seemed to suggest that much would depend on Trumps performance in the second presidential debate, scheduled for Sunday in St Louis.
We pray for his family, he said, and look forward to the opportunity he has to show what is in his heart when he goes before the nation tomorrow night.
Paul Ryan addressed a crowd at a Republican event in Wisconsin, to boos and heckles from Trump supporters. The nominee had been invited to attend by the House speaker but in the wake of the controversy on Friday, Ryan rescinded this invitation.
On Saturday Ryan took to the stage, saying there is a bit of an elephant in the room. He then referenced his statement on the issue, in which he said he was sickened by Trumps remarks, before making clear thats not what we are here to talk about today.
Woman who sued Trump over alleged sexual assault speaks out
The Clinton campaign remained silent throughout the day. The Democratic nominee will address the issue at Sundays presidential debate, a campaign official told the Guardian, as that forum will provide her with the largest possible audience.
The thinking within Clintons campaign was to let Trump suffer the repercussions of being unendorsed en masse by members of his own party. Surrogates for the former secretary of state were also encouraged to temper their responses.
Clintons team was also certain Trump would remain the Republican nominee, the official said, it being too late to remove him from the ballot. The campaign has not yet shifted its resources in light of the leaked video and plans to move forward with the same battleground plan.
In Manhattan, Trumps appearance outside Trump Tower drew enthusiastic responses from the nominees supporters. One, Joseph Conigliaro, said: I was excited to see him. He came out of nowhere! Everyone was screaming.
He made those comments when he was a businessman and a TV star. They mean nothing. People say a lot of things in private they wouldnt say in public running for office. Its freedom of speech. We werent paying him. He was in business.
Another supporter, Anne McLain, said: I felt so excited. I appreciate it. I called him Mr President. Hes going to build a wall to look after our national security. Hes loves women. Regardless of what he said in a bar 10 years ago.
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How I Helped the Sexual Revolution Hijack the Women's Movement
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Contraception and abortion were not originally part of the 1960s women's movement. How did the women's movement, which fought for equal opportunity for women in education and the workplace, and the sexual revolution, which reduced women to ambitious sex objects, become so united?
In Subverted, Sue Ellen Browder documents for the first time how it all happened, in her own life and in the life of an entire country. Trained at the University of Missouri School of Journalism to be an investigative journalist, Browder unwittingly betrayed her true calling and became a propagandist for sexual liberation. As a long-time freelance writer for Cosmopolitan magazine, she wrote pieces meant to soft-sell unmarried sex, contraception, and abortion as the single woman's path to personal fulfillment. She did not realize until much later that propagandists higher and cleverer than herself were influencing her thinking and her personal choices as they subverted the women's movement.
The thirst for truth, integrity, and justice for women that led Browder into journalism in the first place eventually led her to find forgiveness and freedom in the place she least expected to find them. Her in- depth research, her probing analysis, and her honest self-reflection set the record straight and illumine a way forward for others who have suffered from the unholy alliance between the women's movement and the sexual revolution.
Sue Ellen Browder
Sue Ellen Browder is a freelance writer who has appeared on Oprah, the Today Show, and hundreds of radio talk shows. Her work for Cosmopolitan, New Woman, Woman's Day, and other magazines has given her a lifetime of experience with the women's movement as it unfolded in the media, both on the public stage and behind the scenes.
Subverted offers a window into our uniquely disturbed historical era. Generations of readers will turn to Subverted when they want to know what turned the tide."
— Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D., Founder and President, the Ruth Institute
p>"Browder combines a compelling personal narrative with piercing observations from her work in women's media, resulting in a book you can't put down."
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p>"Subverted is a game changer for our culture, and in particular, for women."
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p>"What a romp—through the offices, the backrooms, and even the personal lives that brought you the sexual revolution!"
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p>"A gripping story that uncovers the dirty secrets behind the women's movement. A must-read for Millennials."
— Kristan Hawkins, President, Students for Life of America
"Browder's understanding of the human person, the intrinsic need for relationship, is beautiful and deep."
— Jeanne Mancini, Director, March for Life
p>"Sue Ellen Browder is silent no more about her role in promoting a distorted feminism; you will be refreshed by her courage."
— Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director, Priests for Life
"It sounds like a cliché but I literally could not put this book down.Through her own personal experience and journalistic expertise, Sue Ellen Browder documents with vivid detail how the sexual revolution has sold women, men, and society a huge bill of goods. This book is a must read for anyone concerned about the declining state of our culture." - Teresa Tomeo

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Kyle J. Howard, racial provocateur of questionably Crips-ish background, blessed our hearts three weeks ago when he announced that he was retiring from Twitter due to the trauma that participating there was causing him. We thought at the time his 10-tweet blaze-of-glory-do-not-go-gently-into-the-good-night exit was the right move for him and everyone else in his sphere of influence. We believed that his days of vexatiously poke-poke-poking the orthodoxy-bear with his theologically bent stick were behind him, and that he could take a break and step back from a place that was clearly taking a toll on his mental health.
Sadly, and perhaps cruelly, Howard is back to the brink, and the object of his ire is none other than The Babylon Bee, "our trusted source for Christian News satire." Lobbing accusations that they are racists and that they publish trash racist articles, Howard took a swing at them for their latest article titled "Chick-Fil-A Temporarily Changes Slogan To 'Eat Fewer Bats." Howard writes:
It wasn't the first time Howard took exception to a Babylon Bee article, making similar accusations back in 2019 when he labelled them as racists for commenting unfavourably on AOC's intelligence and making much of her much-ballyhooed pro-socialism statements. He also lamented that Babylon Bee founder and creator Adam Ford is also a racist, having revealed his true colours when he fully supported the site and the editorial path they were on.
When one follower inquired what specifically about the article was racist, Howard elaborated:
"Micro-aggression" aside, when that inquisitive follower suggested that perhaps Howard was reading into something that wasn't there and that the article writer wasn't trying to communicate what he believed he was, he retorted:
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Ahead of Anti-Corruption Day, GFI Reviews the Major Developments of 2012
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WASHINGTON, DC – As the world observes International Anti-Corruption Day this Sunday, December 9, 2012, Global Financial Integrity highlighted some of the most notable achievements, developments, and short-comings in the fight against corruption over the past year.
Dodd-Frank Section 1504 (Cardin-Lugar) Enacted
Perhaps the greatest anti-corruption victory of the year, the Securities and Exchange Commission adopted a strong set of rules enabling the Cardin-Lugar provisions of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act to take effect last month. Cardin-Lugar requires companies registered with the SEC that operate in the oil, gas, and mining sectors to publicly report the payments they make to foreign governments.
The provisions have garnered praise from civil society groups around the world as an historic measure to bring increased stability, accountability, and transparency to a multi-billion dollar, global industry, and similar provisions are now being considered in the European Union.
"The enactment of Cardin-Lugar is likely the biggest anti-corruption achievement of the year," said GFI Director Raymond Baker. "Developing countries lose $1 trillion per year to crime, corruption and tax evasion, much of which is facilitated by opacity in the global financial system. The transparency measures included in Section 1504 could help significantly curtail these illicit outflows." Read more about the provisions here.
G20 Renews the Anti-Corruption Working Group
Another victory for the anti-corruption movement came in June at the G20 Los Cabos Summit, where world leaders renewed the mandate of the G20 Anti-Corruption Working Group for another two years. Commissioned at the Seoul Summit in 2010, the Working Group's mandate was originally set to expire at the end of this year.
"We were extremely happy to see the mandate of the Anti-Corruption Working Group extended," noted Mr. Baker. "The Working Group has been crucial to progressing global anti-corruption initiatives. Its renewal ensures that anti-corruption fighters will continue to have a strong voice at world summits in the coming years." Read more about it here.
Anti-Money Laundering Crackdown and Enforcement
A number of money laundering compliance scandals at major international banks made it clear this year that financial institutions in the U.S. and abroad are not adequately complying with anti-money laundering regulations. In July, a U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations hearing on HSBC painted a picture of a bank that chose profit over protection, failing to apply legally mandated anti-money laundering protections to many of its accounts. Additional scandals broke involving lax compliance at ING Bank, Standard Chartered, JP Morgan Chase, and elsewhere.
U.S. financial regulators have taken note, stepping up enforcement and issuing larger fines, but it remains unclear as to whether the bankers who failed to comply with anti-money laundering policies will be held criminally liable.
GFI has noted that fines, monitoring, and deferred prosecution agreements are likely not adequate to ensure compliance. Heather Lowe, GFI's legal counsel and director of government affairs, said "At some point, guilty individuals and companies are just guilty. Law enforcement has to stop handing out get-out-of-jail free cards. Banks can't be too big to prosecute, and the people responsible for making the decisions to launder criminal money must be held legally accountable." Read more about HSBC and money laundering.
Anonymous U.S. Shell Companies Remain Intact
Despite mounting evidence of the harm that anonymous shell companies do to the international financial system, legislators in the U.S. have thus far failed to pass the Incorporation Transparency and Law Enforcement Assistance Act (S. 1483 / H.R. 3416), legislation requiring that information on the true, human owner of any U.S. company be available to law enforcement. A recent World Bank report revealed that the U.S. was the favorite destination of corrupt politicians trying to set up shell companies to access the financial system, and a separate academic study released earlier this fall demonstrated that the U.S. was the second-easiest country in which to establish an anonymous shell company after Kenya.
"Anonymous shell companies are routinely used by kleptocrats, drug traffickers, tax evaders, and terrorists to launder their money and impede law enforcement investigations," said Tom Cardamone, GFI's managing director. "There is no legitimate reason why the real owners of corporations should not be available to law enforcement authorities." Read more about the Incorporation Transparency and Law Enforcement Assistance Act.
A major disappointment on the international front was the failure by the Financial Action Task Force, which revised its 40 international money laundering standards earlier this year, to require countries complying with its standards to collect information on the true "beneficial owners" of corporate entities when they are formed. Instead, the international body chose to make such disclosure an optional approach, thereby leaving intact one of the major loopholes used by financial criminals to anonymously launder their money. Read more about the FATF Standards here.
Illicit Financial Flows from China
The Chinese economy hemorrhaged US$3.79 trillion in illicit financial outflows from 2000 through 2011, according to an October report by GFI. Amidst increased domestic concern over inequality and corruption, GFI's study raised serious questions about the stability of the Chinese economy as it transitions into the new era of Xi Jinping's leadership.
"The Chinese economy is a ticking time bomb," said Dr. Dev Kar, GFI's lead economist who co-authored the report. "The social, political, and economic order is not sustainable in the long-run given such massive illicit outflows." Read more about the report.
Wal-Mart, U.S. Corporations, and Foreign Bribery
An investigation by the New York Times published in March alleged that Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, engaged in systemic bribery in Mexico in order to gain a competitive advantage in the Latin American nation. Subsequent reporting has revealed that the retailer may be under investigation for bribery in other countries such as China, India, and Brazil. GFI notes that foreign bribery by major U.S. and international corporations remains a problem, undermines transparent markets, and highlights the need for strong U.S. anti-corruption enforcement. Read more.
Illicit Financial Flows from Mexico
A January report from Global Financial Integrity found that crime, corruption, and tax evasion cost the Mexican economy US$872 billion between 1970 and 2010. The illicit financial outflows, which averaged a massive 5.2% of GDP, grew significantly over the 41-year period studied from just US$1 billion in 1970 to US$68.5 billion in 2010.
"This is a devastatingly large amount of money for any developing country to lose," noted GFI's director, Raymond Baker. "$872 billion is gone, which could have been used to develop the Mexican economy, to invest in education, to build roads, or to fight the drug cartels. The negative ramifications are huge for everyday Mexicans." Read more about the report.
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Competing in Round of 32 of Men's light heavy 81kg, Ehsan Rouzbehani faced Peter Müllenberg of the Netherlands in Pavilion 6 of Riocentro where he lost the game (0-3) to drop out of Olympic Games.
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Commissioning of Fiji's Honorary Consul in Akita Prefecture, Serving the Tohoku Region
September 6, 2018 /in EMBASSY NEWS, EMBASSY NEWS ARCHIVE, JAPAN NEWS /by Kelera Rakavosa
The Embassy of the Republic of Fiji in Tokyo successfully commissioned Mr. Hiroki Miura as Fiji's Honorary Consul in Akita on Saturday, 1st September 2018. Mr. Miura's appointment will cover the Tohoku Consular District, which consists of six large prefectures in North-East of Japan.
Fiji's Ambassador to Japan, H.E Mataitoga presenting the Consular Commission to Mr. Miura, formalizing his appointment as Fiji's Honorary Consul in Akita, while Mrs. Miura looks on.
The ceremony was marked by the official presentation of the Consular Commission – signed by the Hon. Josaia V. Bainimarama, Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs – by Fiji's Ambassador to Japan, His Excellency Ambassador Mr. Isikeli Mataitoga to the newly commissioned Mr. Miura.
The commissioning ceremony was held at the ALVE Akita before 250 guests that included the Honorable Members of the Diet, Governor of Akita Prefecture, Mayor of Akita City, Councilors of respective towns and cities in Akita and the Tohoku region. Attending the occasion were also members of the business community, representatives of NGOs as well as academia. Also witnessing the event were the members of the Nasinu Secondary School Under 15 Rugby Team, which is currently in Akita for a week of rugby and cultural exchanges with the Akita City and schools.
In congratulating Mr. Miura on behalf of the Government of Fiji, Ambassador Mataitoga expressed profound gratitude for his willingness to assist Fiji in building and strengthening the Fiji-Japan relationship in the Tohoku region. H.E Mataitoga also underscored Fiji's long-standing emphasis and work in establishing and maintaining friendly relations with partners who have demonstrated genuine goodwill towards Fiji. And the growing bond between Fiji and Akita in recent times necessitated the establishment of this new Honorary Consulate appointment. It is also a reflection of the goodwill enjoyed between Japan and Fiji since 1970 in promoting economic, commercial and people-to-people relations between the two countries.
L-R: Mr. Ochida (Chairman Akita Rugby Union), Mr. Motomu HOZUMI (Akita City Mayor), H.E Mr.Norihisa SATAKE (Governor – Akita Prefecture), Mr Hiroki Miura (Fiji's Honorary Consul in Akita), Mrs.Miura, and H.E Ambassador Mataitoga, after the presentation of the Consular Commission.
With the establishment of the new Honorary Consulate in Akita, Ambassador Mataitoga is confident that this will lay the platform for Fiji to deepen its reach in promoting tourism, trade, and investment in the greater Tohoku region. The Fiji Embassy in Japan is confident that the presence of the Honorary Consulate will encourage, support and translate business/investment opportunities into tangible benefits for Fiji and Japan. The office will also be an excellent point of information dissemination about Fiji.
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Dawn Field and Neil Davies
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The Hard Thing Rule
March 12, 2017 by Sam Spurrell in Books, Psychology
"In our family, we live by the Hard Thing Rule."
— Angela Duckworth, Grit
Last week, I wrote about Grit, the excellent book written by Angela Duckworth. In it, she makes a compelling case for why the most important personality trait to develop is not talent, it's grit.
The most successful people in any domain, whether they are Olympic athletes or leading scientists, tend to have very high levels of grit. They don't quit things easily and have a long term goal that remains unchanged for very long periods of time.
Fortunately, the message of the book is that your level of grit can change over time. I wanted to revisit one more idea before moving on because it has been something I've been thinking about over the last few days. Duckworth calls it 'The Hard Thing Rule'.
The Hard Thing rule is a rule that Duckworth's family has in place, and it's designed to help her family (and particularly her kids) to develop their level of grit. There are three main aspects:
Everyone has to do a hard thing.
The first part of the rule is that everyone has to do a hard thing. A hard thing is something that requires daily deliberate practice, such as playing the piano or playing a sport. As mentioned in my previous post, deliberate practice is a specific type of focused practice in which you deliberately stretch yourself and get out of your comfort zone. You focus on the areas you are weakest and develop strategies for improving them.
Deliberate practice is not particularly fun, but it is an incredibly efficient way to improve. This is why you need a high level of grit to do it consistently. And also this is why it's called the "Hard Thing" rule.
You can quit, but not any time.
The second part of the Hard Thing rule is that you are allowed to quit, but not until a 'natural' stopping point arrives. That means you can't quit until the football season is over, or this term's music lessons are done. The goal is to finish whatever your begin and so you cannot quit just because you had a bad day, or someone shouted at you, or you feel disheartened about your progress.
You get to pick your hard thing.
The third part of the Hard Thing rule is that each person gets to pick the thing that they want to work on. An intrinsic part of being gritty is being passionate and interested in what you're doing, so it's important that you pick an activity you are interested in from the beginning. Being forced to play the piano when you always hated it will not lead to developing grit, it will lead to resentment and wasted time.
These are the three main aspects of the Hard Thing Rule, but Duckworth mentions that since her kids are getting a bit older they are introducing a fourth part:
4. Two year commitments.
You must commit to at least one activity (whether new or continuing an old one) for at least two years. This ties back to the second aspect of the rule. The goal is to become the sort of person that finishes whatever he or she starts, and doesn't quit easily. Long term commitments like this will help develop grit more effectively.
To some, the Hard Thing Rule may appear harsh or too strict, but it's hard to refute the reasoning behind it given that it's coming from the woman who literally wrote the book on this!
If you believe the research Duckworth talks about then developing grit is essential to going far in your domain of expertise. If your ambition is to be the very best that you can be in some area then you simply have to be (or become) a gritty person. Lucky for us, it is possible to build up your grit, but it takes practice. The Hard Thing Rule is a great example of how you can build in systems and rules that specifically target grit growth.
For me, my Hard Thing is to write for this blog every day. I don't manage to publish every day, but I make sure to at least write for a set period of time. It's not particularly easy and there are days when I struggle to bring myself to do it, but the Hard Thing Rule is my new favourite motivation.
March 12, 2017 /Sam Spurrell
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Why Grit Matters
March 04, 2017 by Sam Spurrell in Books, Entrepreneurship, Psychology
"I have always maintained that, excepting fools, men did not differ much in intellect, only in zeal and hard work; and I still think this is an eminently important difference." — Charles Darwin
Angela Duckworth explains that succeeding in life has more to do with how gritty you are than things like 'talent', 'passion' or 'genius'.
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"If you're looking for a formula for greatness, the closest we'll ever get, I think, is this: Consistency driven by a deep love of the work."
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What's the slow and steady approach?
February 06, 2017 by Sam Spurrell in Psychology, Philosophy
Half way through last year, I decided that I wanted to learn to speak Chinese. It was largely inspired by the trip I took in February to Beijing and then Hong Kong which was an amazing experience. However, like many other people have found, Chinese is quite difficult and I was in a hurry to make progress. I had naively figured that a couple of months of self taught lessons would see me chatting conversationally in Mandarin. When I struggled to make progress as quickly as I wanted, I soon got dispirited and put it to one side.
I told myself that it would just be temporary until I found a big chunk of quality time that I could dedicate to it. Well, surprise surprise, I never found the one big chunk of time and I still can't speak Chinese.
I'm sure I'm not the only one to experience something like this. Most often we are in a real hurry to reach our goals as quickly as possible, and run the risk of giving up entirely if we don't see the results we expected.
So, we end up framing the problems in the same way over and over again: What's the fastest way to lose 30lbs? What's the quickest way to learn a new language? How quickly can I read this book?
However, there are other frames that we unduly neglect. How would you approach your goals if you had 2 years to achieve them? Or 10 years? Is it possible that small things done consistently are more powerful than a whirlwind of intensity that goes nowhere?
Take, for instance, reading books. The power of small actions, done consistently are impressive.
Making some conservative estimates, let's say it takes 2 minutes to read one page of a book, and that an average book has 250 pages. If you could dedicate 15 minutes every day to reading a book, you would get through nearly 11 books over the course of the year. Sure, that's not exactly a world record, but it's a decent number and with the absolute minimum of effort required. The only difficult thing is that you do it every day.
Now imagine it took you only 90 seconds to read a page, and you were able to dedicate 30 minutes per day. Now you're on track to read 33 books in the next year!
This is a lesson that may be obvious when it's spelled out, but it's hard to put into practice. If I had broken my Chinese learning goal into small, daily steps that I could stick to consistently, most likely I would now be in with a chance of seeing some results! And what's more, once you have decided to commit yourself to the small, but consistent approach, you give yourself permission not to see results right away and to go easy on yourself.
What good is the ambition to develop yourself if your learning cycle consists of bursts of enthusiasm followed by beating yourself up that you didn't achieve what you wanted? I still want to learn Chinese, but all I have to show for the last 6 months is frustration that I've not been more self disciplined.
No doubt, sometimes fast and intense are the right approach. It is possible to learn a new skill quickly. There are super efficient ways to get in shape and lose loads of weight. If I had moved to China last year and immersed myself in the language, then I'm sure I'd be speaking at least conversationally by now.
But sometimes, it's okay to take the slow and steady approach. What would you change if you decided you were going to do one small thing consistently for the next 365 days?
February 06, 2017 /Sam Spurrell
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Psychology, Philosophy
Recommended Read: One Man's Quest To Change The Way We Die
January 10, 2017 by Sam Spurrell in Other, Psychology
A story was featured in the New York Times recently about B.J. Miller, a doctor specialising in end of life care, who also happens to be a triple amputee. It's about the hospice he set up in California that takes an unconventional approach to looking after the dying.
The majority of the piece is about Randy Sloan, a guy in his 20s with a rare form of cancer, and how his final days are spent. This quote in particular stood out to me:
""I think of it as: Randy [Sloan] got to play himself out."
This is a favorite phrase of Miller's. It means that Randy's ability to be Randy was never unnecessarily constrained. What Sloan chose to do with that freedom at the Guest House was up to him.
Miller was suggesting that I'd misunderstood the mission of Zen Hospice. Yes, it's about wresting death from the one-size-fits-all approach of hospitals, but it's also about puncturing a competing impulse, the one I was scuffling with now: our need for death to be a hypertranscendent experience.
"Most people aren't having these transformative deathbed moments," Miller said. "And if you hold that out as a goal, they're just going to feel like they're failing." The truth was, Zen Hospice had done something almost miraculous: It had allowed Sloan and those who loved him to live a succession of relatively ordinary, relatively satisfying present moments together, until Sloan's share of present moments ran out."
It's an emotional read, but well worth the time. Check it out:
January 10, 2017 /Sam Spurrell
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Other, Psychology
Thinking About Risk: The Mind Your Portfolio Principle
January 03, 2017 by Sam Spurrell in Psychology, Money
Many people seek security by avoiding uncertainty. In fact they may be less secure because of it.
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A Year Of Books: 2016 In Review
January 02, 2017 by Sam Spurrell in Psychology, Philosophy, Strategy, Books
A review of 2016 through the books I read.
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Great Teams Have Psychological Safety
July 03, 2016 by Sam Spurrell in Psychology, Entrepreneurship, Start Ups
I recently finished reading "Smarter, Faster, Better" by Charles Duhigg - a great read full of insights about how the most productive individuals and organisations work.
One of the best sections is about what makes a good team and it refers extensively to work done by Google during "Project Aristotle". Google spent several months studying all of their teams to try and determine what the highest performing teams have in common and whether traditionally accepted wisdom held up to scrutiny.
What they found was that it was surprisingly difficult to discover any features of a team that were always correlated with high performance. There were high performing teams that were very extroverted, but also those that were introverted. Some were best friends outside of work, while others never spoke outside of the office. They had hypothesised that teams who are physically located together would outperform teams who are distributed around the world - but even that turned out not to be the case.
The one thing that they found to be a reliable and consistent feature of high performing teams is what they called "psychological safety". The size, location, organisational structure, and every other feature you could think of turned out not to be essential for high performance. Only psychological safety is absolutely essential.
What is psychological safety?
According Duhigg:
Psychological safety is a "shared belief, held by members of the team, that the group is a safe place for taking risks. "It is a "sense of confidence that the team will not embarrass, reject, or punish someone for speaking up... It describes a team climate characterised by interpersonal trust and mutual respect in which people are comfortable being themselves.
- Page 50, Smarter, Faster, Better.
A team that does not have psychological safety is one in which members of the team aren't comfortable being themselves and may worry about speaking their mind or taking risks once in a while. On the other hand, teams that do have psychological safety encourage innovative ideas and novel approach to be aired publicly. Of course, a team that has psychological safety is not guaranteed to be high performing, but, according to Google's research, those who don't have it will be very unlikely to reach their full potential.
How does one produce psychological safety within a team?
Again, Google has the answers. There are two behaviours that all good teams share and which contribute to an atmosphere of psychological safety: social sensitivity and equality of conversation turn-taking.
Social sensitivity is a short way of saying that members of great teams tend to be aware of how other people within the group are feeling. As Duhigg puts it, good teams "were skilled at intuiting how members felt based on their tone of voice, how people held themselves, and the expressions on their faces." (pg 60)
The other behaviour that leads to psychological safety is 'equality of conversation turn-taking'. This simply means that "all the members of the good teams spoke in roughly the same proportion... In some teams, for instance, everyone spoke during each task. In other groups, conversation ebbed from assignment to assignment but by the end of the day, everyone had spoken roughly the same amount." (Pg 60)
These two behaviours are perhaps not the two you would think essential for high performance, but once they are pointed out it's not hard to see some logic behind them. A team in which individuals are not socially sensitive are more likely to develop poor relationships over time. It's often said that a huge proportion of our communication is non-verbal i.e. There's more to understanding other people than just understanding the meaning of the words we say.
A team where individuals don't pick up social cues based on tone of voice, body language, etc is one where people will very often misunderstand one another. Best case scenario that means they will make mistakes because they're not all on the same page. Worst case scenario there will be hurt feelings, arguments and a sour mood.
As for speaking in equal amounts, it should also not be very surprising to discover that this how high performing teams operate. Assuming you have hired well in the first place, shouldn't you expect each member to have something valuable to offer when addressing a problem? The more voices that are heard, the more perspectives will be brought to bear and the more likely you are to find an innovative solution to a difficult problem.
What's more, it's almost certainly a universal law that people want a voice and they want to be heard. Giving each member of your team a voice doesn't mean that everyone gets a vote in the final decision, but it does mean that they feel valued, respected and meaningful. If you've ever been a part of a meeting where you can't get a word in you'll know how hopeless it feels. I wouldn't be surprised if that feeling spreads across all areas of your work over time.
The final comment on implementing a culture of psychological safety is that it's important that leaders set the tone and behave as they expect their team to behave.
"To create psychological safety, team leaders needed to model the right behaviours... Leaders should not interrupt team mates during conversations, because that will establish an interrupting norm. They should demonstrate they are listening by summarising what people say after they said it. They should admit what they don't know. They shouldn't end a meeting until all team members have spoken at least once.
... There are two general principles: teams succeed when everyone feels like they can speak up and when members show they are sensitive to how one another feels." (Pg 66)
I'd really recommend getting a copy of Harder, Faster, Better by Charles Duhigg. It's got a ton of really interesting stories and insights on motivation, setting goals, building a great team and more.
July 03, 2016 /Sam Spurrell
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The Pressure to Appear Consistent: American POWs in Korea
April 26, 2016 by Sam Spurrell in Psychology, Sales
Why did so many American Prisoners of War (POWs) collaborate with the Chinese during the Korean War? In 1950, with the Cold War in full swing, Korea's northern communist faction invaded their Southern compatriots with the support of China and the USSR. In response, the United Nations, led by the USA, came to the South's aid leading to the establishment of two countries - one that would become the 11th largest economy in the world, the other going on to become an oppressive dictatorship with third world levels of famine and poverty. I'll leave it to you to figure out which is which.
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However, the most fascinating part of the Korean war is not what happened on the front lines, but what was going on at the Chinese-run prisoner of war camps. According to American investigators after the war, nearly every captured American soldier collaborated with their captors in some form, at some point during their imprisonment. How can this be? These were highly trained Americans who were surrounded by the Anti-Communist sentiments that dominated US politics so completely. The whole reason that they were even in Korea was because Communism is such a bad thing that it's worth going to war over! Some were so convinced by the Chinese that they decided to stay there after the war!
So, what did the Chinese do that led to such extraordinary results? The answer is that they had a sophisticated understanding of human psychology. In particular, they understood one of the most powerful driving forces behind human activity: the desire to appear consistent.
Below is a short passage from 'Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion' by Robert B. Cialdini where he outlines the source of their success:
An examination of the Chinese prison camp programme shows that its personnel relied heavily on commitment and consistency pressures to gain the desired compliance from prisoners. Of course, the first problem facing the Chinese was how to get any collaboration at all from the Americans. These were men who were trained to provide nothing but name, rank, and serial number. Short of physical brutalization, how could the captors hope to get such men to give military information, turn-in fellow prisoners, or publicly denounce their country? The Chinese answer was elementary: start small and build.
For instance, prisoners were frequently asked to make statements so mildly anti-american or Pro communist as to seem inconsequential ("The United States is not perfect." "In a communist country, unemployment is not a problem."). But once these minor request were complied with, the men found themselves pushed to submit to related yet more substantive requests. A man who has just agreed with his Chinese interrogator that the United States is not perfect might then be asked to indicate some of the ways in which he thought this was the case. Once he had so explained himself, he might be asked to make a list of these "problems with America" and to sign his name to it. Later he might be asked to read his list in a discussion group with other prisoners. "After all, it's what you really believe, isn't it?" Still later he might be asked to write an essay expanding on his list and discussing these problems in greater detail.
The Chinese might then use his name and his essay in an anti American radio broadcast beamed not only to the entire camp, but to other p.o.w. camps in North Korea, as well as to American Forces in South Korea. Suddenly he would find himself a "collaborator" having given aid to the enemy. Aware that he had written the essay without any strong threats or coercion, many times a man would change his image of himself to be consistent with the deed and with the new "collaborator" label, often resulting in even more extensive acts of collaboration.
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The Desire to Appear Consistent
The passage above highlights clearly how the pressure to appear consistent with your previous actions can lead to dramatic results. What makes this process so insidious is the fact that an individual's self image can change so rapidly and without them even being aware that they are being manipulated.
At no point did the Chinese torture their prisoners or threaten them with punishment if they refused to sign their name to an anti American letter. In fact that would have made it so much easier for the Americans to remain resistant. The genius of the Chinese approach is that each tiny step was one that you freely chose (or at least it felt free). If you chose to write that letter admitting that China is a pretty great place then you take inner responsibility for it, almost guaranteeing that your self image would change to become consistent with your actions. Here's Robert Cialdini again:
Our best evidence of what people truly feel and believe comes less from their words than from their deeds. Observers trying to decide what a man is like look closely at his actions. What the Chinese have discovered is that the man himself uses the same evidence to decide what he is like. His behaviour tells him about himself; [emphasis mine] It is a primary source of information about his beliefs and values and attitudes. Understanding fully this important principle of self perception, the Chinese set about arranging the prison camp experience so that their captives would consistently act in desired ways. Before long, the Chinese knew, these actions would begin to take their toll, causing the men to change their views of themselves to align with what they had done.
What does that mean for me?
As fascinating as this story is, the implications are very significant!
The fact is that we all tell ourselves a story about what sort of person we are and what sort of things we believe in. While we like to believe that there is a consistent, immutable part of us that never changes - the truth is that our beliefs and our character are very malleable indeed. Most people think that they know who they are thanks to their ability to 'look inside themselves' and judge their innermost beliefs. In fact, we build our picture of our selves in much the same way that we build a picture of any one else - we look at the things we do and the words we say and draw a conclusion on the evidence.
The scary side of this realisation is that it's possible for other people to attempt to influence your character without you ever realising it. By getting you to make some small concession today, they can change the story that you tell yourself in a way that has very significant long term consequences.
The more optimistic view is that if there are beliefs you have or behaviours you exhibit which you're not happy about - it's quite possible to change those things about yourself! How to do that? Take a lesson from the Chinese Army:
Small actions now can build up into radical changes of perspective - so DO worry about the small stuff and don't brush off seemingly inconsequential actions as harmless if they are not the sort of person you want to be.
The story you tell to yourself about who you are and what you believe can lead to enormous behavioural changes, so protect your story and don't let other people have too much control over it.
The drive to be consistent is understandably powerful and resisting it is uncomfortable, but sometimes it's okay to be inconsistent if you realise that you've started down a path you didn't choose.
If you enjoyed this post, I would seriously recommend buying a copy of 'Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion' by Robert B. Cialdini. It's a really well written book that examines the most powerful ways that people are influenced, and ways to avoid being manipulated.
For a really great summary of why the Korean War happened and why North and South ended up so differently, check out this youtube video.
April 26, 2016 /Sam Spurrell
china, consistency, consistent, influence, north korea, pressure, psychology, south korea
Psychology, Sales


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» Ryan Doyle, Jamil Jivani & A New CFRB Mystery
Ryan Doyle, Jamil Jivani & A New CFRB Mystery
It's now been a few months since Ryan Doyle was even mentioned on his old 1010 home. And Jamil Jivani hasn't been heard on CFRB's airwaves for more than a month. Still no word on what happened to them or how they came to leave their shows.
Doyle has not posted a single message on his Twitter site since Oct. 27th, right before his disappearance. His Facebook page has "no posts available" on it.
In contrast, Jamil Jivani has continued to post to social media, but there's been nothing at all about his sudden departure from radio on his Twitter, Facebook or Instagram pages.
What's interesting about this to me is that we've all seen what happens when media people are let go from their jobs without a chance to say goodbye to their listeners. They almost always post a message somewhere thanking fans for following their shows and wishing those left behind well.
The fact that neither has done that intrigues me and - this is total speculation on my part - leads me to believe they may both be launching legal action against their former employer for wrongful dismissal or some other claim. Otherwise why the endless silence? (In Jivani's case, he could perhaps do it himself, since he has a law degree.)
Legal advice is often to stay quiet about these things, as anything they say could potentially harm a pending case. I suppose we'll see if either of them winds up seeking a settlement in court and returning online to give their side of the story.
Which brings us to the latest mystery. Where in the world is Lisa Morales, the former CFRB morning traffic reporter? Back in 2019, she announced she was leaving the station to become a fulltime mom to her newborn baby. But she eventually returned to some fanfare on Moore in the Morning not too long ago. Now she, too, has suddenly gone missing, replaced by former afternoon traffic reporter Adwoa Nsiah-Yeboah. Perhaps Morales was only back to fill the gaps during holidays. But like the other two, her absence has never been addressed.
If anyone knows what's going on over there, feel free to share anonymously here.
Talk about for whom the Bell tolls...
Re: Ryan Doyle, Jamil Jivani & A New CFRB Mystery
And by the way, I notice that the NewsTalk 1010 schedule page still lists Jim Richards as doing the overnight show. He hasn't been there in months and I can only presume that after all this time, he's no longer "filling in" on the afternoon show. Why don't they just confirm the co-host gig is his and make it official?
Shades of Greg Brady on GNR640, who was in for Mike Stafford for months, before they finally gave him the mornings permanently.
Last edited by RadioActive (January 19, 2022 8:21 pm)
January 20, 2022 12:41 pm #3
I'm not sure of the reason for Morales's absence, but there was this Twitter post (image below) of hers. The last responder in this comment thread seemed to presume it was a job loss, although unless I missed a clarifying post of hers that might be only his assumption on the general "2022 sucks" sentiment.
Morales was openly speaking on-air with John Moore about a Covid-19 scare with a family/extended family member (I think last year sometime) and quarantining when she previously had a substitute in the traffic role, so perhaps something related to that and she'll be back.
RadioAaron
If, as you speculate, the former hosts are engaged in legal action against the station, it may be in their best legal interest to not make the replacements official until those are settled, depending on the reason they were given for their dismissal.
January 23, 2022 1:17 am #5
RadioAaron wrote:
Probably in binding arbitration if it's a union shop.
February 1, 2022 10:27 am #6
Jamil Javani speaks out on his firing from 1010
Last edited by PMC (February 1, 2022 10:27 am)
Thanks, PMC, for that link. Interesting read. I'll be looking at his other parts of his post series as well.
Also, for the Lisa Morales question posed earlier in this thread, I see from her Twitter feed that she's taking a bit of time away:
PMC wrote:
Wow. That was a fascinating read. Whatever side you're on politically, every now and then, the curtain gets pulled a bit back and you find out what's going on in the corporate offices of companies like Bell. I'll be interested to read the next installment when he posts it on Feb. 7th.
February 1, 2022 12:00 pm #9
I never heard Jivani's show, so I can't comment specifically.
But is Jivani correct thinking his leaving was solely due to a misconnect between him & management .. or was there a bigger agenda afoot given that Doyle, Jivani, Bendixen & Michaels all left around the same time?
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February 1, 2022 2:33 pm #10
It's hard to tell what Bell is up to specifically regarding cost cutting and Jamil Jivani. But it's odd, considering John Moore always referred to him on air as one of the station's "up and coming radio personalities" and said he had a great future. That radio future is now apparently in his past.
I tuned into Jivani's show from time to time and regardless of your political leanings, he was certainly an unusual change. A black conservative is not someone you hear from often on Toronto airwaves. He was an openly vocal opponent of Black Lives Matter and accused the group of rampant corruption, along with politicians acceding to their every whim in the name of political correctness. That's a view you aren't likely to encounter often from a member of the black community.
He also used to warn against the "-isms" and the "-obias," meaning terms like racism and Islamophobia. While he certainly acknowledged both exist, his message seemed to be that those odious beliefs were often being applied to people who didn't deserve them, as a means of weaponizing the terms.
Jivani came to the station with a pretty good pedigree - a Yale University law degree and a sitting member of the Premier's Council on Equality of Opportunity, among others. He was hired and given a show of his own nationwide for his opinions. It's terribly ironic then, that he claims those very opinions are what allegedly got him thrown off the air.
A talk show host with diversity of thought? Heresy! When will they learn - we must all think the same. Where were the thought police on this case?
Last edited by Dale Patterson (February 1, 2022 4:13 pm)
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RadioQuiz
Writing a 5 part series on your dismissal is impressive.
Took a little peak at the ratings... well... it wasn't good.
You have to hand it to CFRB - in the name of diversity they've given daily shows to an anti-Muslim Muslim (Tarek Fatah) and an anti-BLM Black man. (Ok, they had Desmond Cole as well at one point, but he only got a weekend show). All they need is an anti-feminist woman and a homophobic gay man or lesbian and they'll be fully diverse. (Too bad Sue-Ann Levy has decamped to Florida, she'd be perfect!)
Last edited by Hansa (February 1, 2022 5:15 pm)
If you're right, that still doesn't explain what he claims management told him. If it were ratings, why would they not have just said that?
rhunter
I absolutely couldn't stand the guy. Every show was just him exclaiming "WOKE!" and whatever right wing meme-speak was being regurgitated on Reddit and the like. I might as well have tuned into 640 if that's what I wanted to listen to.
February 2, 2022 9:22 am #16
Norman peters
John Moore has often stated that host aren't told by the brass at Bell Media what their position on any given topic should be. Depends on which time slot the host has?
Jamil Jivani continues with his side of what happened, including a bizarre offer of a gig posting articles for the CTV website - after he was fired!
How much of all this is true, we'll never know, unless someone from Bell comes forward.
Did Bell Media just try to buy my silence?
March 7, 2022 8:21 am #18
Lisa Morales doing traffic this morning on CFRB


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