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You’re sitting at a restaurant waiting for a friend. Twenty minutes after your designated meeting time, they arrive in a flutter with a list of excuses. Perhaps there was too much traffic or a meeting ran long. You’ve heard it a million times, yet their behavior never changes. Sound familiar "I think everyone has a person in their life that does this," said Herb Reich, author of the book 2051 Things That Really Piss Me Off. "Being late constantly, to me, means you are saying your time is more valuable than mine." Reich said while it’s easier to forgive friends and family for their lateness, we need to establish very clear boundaries for being on time when it comes to professional relationships. "Sometimes I will establish consequences in the contract." he said, "It’s always wise to let people know what you feel about their behavior." And while Reich said lateness is a "personality trait," psychologist Pamela Brand said the behavior is neurological (神经学的)." We call this a bio-psycho-socio pattern," Brand said. The biological cause of lateness, she said, is when the person’s organization and planning skills are underdeveloped. Socially, she said here can be learned behaviors or cultural communities that don’t focus on time or being prompt. "If someone wasn’t raised ever looking at a watch things were kind of loose growing up, just knowing this can help us understand why they function a certain way," she said. The psychological part of the pattern is when a person pardons or rationalizes their behavior with excuses. Brand said. So can people change their ways "It’s my belief that all patterns can be changed if a person is conscious and wants it to be changed." Brand said. "There’s a book called You Are Not Your Brain that I refer to often that outlines a four-step process of changing patterns in the brain. It does a wonderful job of giving a clear explanation of how pattems develop, how they are hard wired into the brain and how to shift pattems to support neurological shifting. "This could take six months for a neurological change to stick." she said. To lend support for someone who is trying to be more punctual. Brand said it helps to raise the stakes. "A person is much less likely to be motivated if there are no consequences." Brand said. "If there is no threat to losing a relationship, losing a job or getting kicked out of school, things will stay the same. So if being late bothers you, you have to rally make the contract clear." Reich agrees. "Once, I was waiting for someone in my professional life, and after 15 minutes, I left." he said. "I explained why I did this, and that changed their behavior. My time is just as valuable as theirs and I don’t want to sit around. They weren’t late after that.\ What do we learn about the book You Are Not Your Brain
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The third quarter GDP figures released on November lst surpassed expectations for once. The economy grew by 0.5%, the fastest quarterly rate for more than a year. The estimate was flattered by a bounce back from a weak second quarter, when output was temporarily depressed by the royal wedding and by interruptions to supplies after the Japanese earthquake. In any case, growing anxiety about a double-dip recession meant the half-decent growth figures were barely celebrated. Prospects for the fourth quarter are dim. The Bank of England’s monetary-policy committee reckons that output will be flat, but even that may prove optimistic. The closely watched purchasing managers’ index for manufacturing plunged from 50.8 to 47.4 in October (a reading below 50 points to falling activity). Order books are slimmer. Manufacturers say nervous customers are delaying new purchases and running down stocks. The immediate source of trouble is the euro area, which is struggling to stop the spread of its sovereign debt crisis. Two-fifths of Britain’s exports go to the 17-country currency block. Even Germany, the euro- zone’s economic motor and its most credit worthy sovereign, has been dragged down by uncertainty over Greece’s bail-out (求助) and the failed efforts to protect Italy and Spain. German manufacturing shrank in October, according to the purchasing managers’ index, and unemployment rose for the first time in 18 months. Britain cannot easily shake off trouble in its export markets. Domestic demand is weak because the government and many householders are struggling with debts of their own. And Britain’s stake in the Eurozone is not confined to trade. British banks are exposed to the region’s trouble spots. Their loans to Ireland, Spain, Italy, Portugal and Greece, the five countries on the euro-zone’s circumference whose sovereign debts are under question by bond markets, amount to ＄350 billion, reckons the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the bank for central banks. A tenth of that was public debt: a larger part was loans to banks; most of it was lending to businesses and consumers. A cynic’s view of the euro-zone’s sovereign bail-out schemes is that they were put in place to preserve French and German banks from losses. That suspicion, along with a widespread conviction among Conservative politicians that the euro is doomed, helps explain why some is Britain complain about the country’s notional exposure through IMF membership (even though the fund is always first in the queue to get its money back). The value of British bank loans to the euro-zone periphery (周围) looks small compared to the ＄680 billion owed to French banks, equivalent to almost a quarter to France’s GDP. But Britain’s bank exposure is still huge, and a shade larger as a share of GDP, at 14.7%, than Germany’s. The author’s purpose in writing this passage is to show that
You’re sitting at a restaurant waiting for a friend. Twenty minutes after your designated meeting time, they arrive in a flutter with a list of excuses. Perhaps there was too much traffic or a meeting ran long. You’ve heard it a million times, yet their behavior never changes. Sound familiar "I think everyone has a person in their life that does this," said Herb Reich, author of the book 2051 Things That Really Piss Me Off. "Being late constantly, to me, means you are saying your time is more valuable than mine." Reich said while it’s easier to forgive friends and family for their lateness, we need to establish very clear boundaries for being on time when it comes to professional relationships. "Sometimes I will establish consequences in the contract." he said, "It’s always wise to let people know what you feel about their behavior." And while Reich said lateness is a "personality trait," psychologist Pamela Brand said the behavior is neurological (神经学的)." We call this a bio-psycho-socio pattern," Brand said. The biological cause of lateness, she said, is when the person’s organization and planning skills are underdeveloped. Socially, she said here can be learned behaviors or cultural communities that don’t focus on time or being prompt. "If someone wasn’t raised ever looking at a watch things were kind of loose growing up, just knowing this can help us understand why they function a certain way," she said. The psychological part of the pattern is when a person pardons or rationalizes their behavior with excuses. Brand said. So can people change their ways "It’s my belief that all patterns can be changed if a person is conscious and wants it to be changed." Brand said. "There’s a book called You Are Not Your Brain that I refer to often that outlines a four-step process of changing patterns in the brain. It does a wonderful job of giving a clear explanation of how pattems develop, how they are hard wired into the brain and how to shift pattems to support neurological shifting. "This could take six months for a neurological change to stick." she said. To lend support for someone who is trying to be more punctual. Brand said it helps to raise the stakes. "A person is much less likely to be motivated if there are no consequences." Brand said. "If there is no threat to losing a relationship, losing a job or getting kicked out of school, things will stay the same. So if being late bothers you, you have to rally make the contract clear." Reich agrees. "Once, I was waiting for someone in my professional life, and after 15 minutes, I left." he said. "I explained why I did this, and that changed their behavior. My time is just as valuable as theirs and I don’t want to sit around. They weren’t late after that.\ According to Brand,______.
The third quarter GDP figures released on November lst surpassed expectations for once. The economy grew by 0.5%, the fastest quarterly rate for more than a year. The estimate was flattered by a bounce back from a weak second quarter, when output was temporarily depressed by the royal wedding and by interruptions to supplies after the Japanese earthquake. In any case, growing anxiety about a double-dip recession meant the half-decent growth figures were barely celebrated. Prospects for the fourth quarter are dim. The Bank of England’s monetary-policy committee reckons that output will be flat, but even that may prove optimistic. The closely watched purchasing managers’ index for manufacturing plunged from 50.8 to 47.4 in October (a reading below 50 points to falling activity). Order books are slimmer. Manufacturers say nervous customers are delaying new purchases and running down stocks. The immediate source of trouble is the euro area, which is struggling to stop the spread of its sovereign debt crisis. Two-fifths of Britain’s exports go to the 17-country currency block. Even Germany, the euro- zone’s economic motor and its most credit worthy sovereign, has been dragged down by uncertainty over Greece’s bail-out (求助) and the failed efforts to protect Italy and Spain. German manufacturing shrank in October, according to the purchasing managers’ index, and unemployment rose for the first time in 18 months. Britain cannot easily shake off trouble in its export markets. Domestic demand is weak because the government and many householders are struggling with debts of their own. And Britain’s stake in the Eurozone is not confined to trade. British banks are exposed to the region’s trouble spots. Their loans to Ireland, Spain, Italy, Portugal and Greece, the five countries on the euro-zone’s circumference whose sovereign debts are under question by bond markets, amount to ＄350 billion, reckons the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the bank for central banks. A tenth of that was public debt: a larger part was loans to banks; most of it was lending to businesses and consumers. A cynic’s view of the euro-zone’s sovereign bail-out schemes is that they were put in place to preserve French and German banks from losses. That suspicion, along with a widespread conviction among Conservative politicians that the euro is doomed, helps explain why some is Britain complain about the country’s notional exposure through IMF membership (even though the fund is always first in the queue to get its money back). The value of British bank loans to the euro-zone periphery (周围) looks small compared to the ＄680 billion owed to French banks, equivalent to almost a quarter to France’s GDP. But Britain’s bank exposure is still huge, and a shade larger as a share of GDP, at 14.7%, than Germany’s. What does the author intend to say by the example of third-quarter GDP figures in the first paragraph
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