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  2. Eccentricity (behavior) - Wikipedia

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    According to Weeks' study, there are several distinctive characteristics that often differentiate a healthy eccentric person from a regular person or someone who has a mental illness. The first five characteristics on Weeks' list are found in most people regarded as eccentric: [8] Nonconforming; Creative; Strongly motivated by curiosity; Idealistic

  3. “She Thought Our Home Life Was Insane”: 30 People ... - AOL

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    All families have their own habits and quirks that can seem strange to outsiders. But after reading this Reddit thread, you might find yours are actually pretty tame. User poothhippers asked ...

  4. Quirk - Wikipedia

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    Quirk or Quirks is having unconventional beliefs or manner, for example mispronouncing, in-jokes, clumsy and ditsy, and may refer to: The Quirk, a literary magazine "Quirks", a song by Ultravox! from the album Ha!-Ha!-Ha! 18376 Quirk, an asteroid; Quirk Books, a Pennsylvania-based publishing company

  5. Habit - Wikipedia

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    Good Habits Poster. A habit (or wont, as a humorous and formal term) is a routine of behavior that is repeated regularly and tends to occur subconsciously. [1]A 1903 paper in the American Journal of Psychology defined a "habit, from the standpoint of psychology, [as] a more or less fixed way of thinking, willing, or feeling acquired through previous repetition of a mental experience."

  6. Lists of pejorative terms for people - Wikipedia

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    List of ethnic slurs. List of ethnic slurs and epithets by ethnicity; List of common nouns derived from ethnic group names; List of religious slurs; A list of LGBT slang, including LGBT-related slurs; List of age-related terms with negative connotations; List of disability-related terms with negative connotations; Category:Sex- and gender ...

  7. Habitus (sociology) - Wikipedia

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    The sociologist Pierre Bourdieu said that the habitus consists of the hexis, a person's carriage and speech , and the mental habits of perception, classification, appreciation, feeling, and action. [2] [3] The habitus allows the individual person to consider and resolve problems based upon gut feeling and intuition. This way of living (social ...

  8. The Power of Habit - Wikipedia

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    A keystone habit is an individual pattern that is unintentionally capable of triggering other habits in the lives of people. Duhigg wrote about the company Alcoa , and how CEO Paul H. O'Neill was able to raise the company's market capitalization by $27 billion by targeting safety in the work environment.

  9. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Wikipedia

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    Proactivity is about taking responsibility for one's reaction to one's own experiences, taking the initiative to respond positively and improve the situation. Covey postulates, in a discussion of the work of psychiatrist Viktor Frankl, that between stimulus and response lies a person's ability to choose how to react, and that nothing can hurt a person without the person's consent.