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  2. Self-handicapping - Wikipedia

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    Self-handicapping is a cognitive strategy by which people avoid effort in the hopes of keeping potential failure from hurting self-esteem. [1] It was first theorized by Edward E. Jones and Steven Berglas, [ 2 ] according to whom self-handicaps are obstacles created, or claimed, by the individual in anticipation of failing performance.

  3. Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 March 31 ...

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    But, you are right to suggest that the real picture is considerably more complicated, and I didnt mean to suggest that it was not. It is probably better to think of an formal-informal cline than a binary opposition of formal/informal, and thousands of pages of sociolinguistic research show that given a certain variation there are numerous ...

  4. Grit (personality trait) - Wikipedia

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    Grit involves maintaining goal-focused effort for extended periods of time, often while facing adversity, but it does not require a critical incident. Importantly, grit is conceptualized as a trait while resilience is a process. Finally, resilience has been almost exclusively studied in children who are born into "at-risk" situations. [20]

  5. Continual improvement process - Wikipedia

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    A continual improvement process, also often called a continuous improvement process (abbreviated as CIP or CI), is an ongoing effort to improve products, services, or processes. [1] These efforts can seek "incremental" improvement over time or "breakthrough" improvement all at once. [2]

  6. Ganbaru - Wikipedia

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    The continuing effort to overcome obstacles (even if not successful) is an important concept in Japan. Unlike the related, but passive gaman, ganbaru is an active process. [10] Although there are many near synonyms in Japanese, there are few antonyms. [6]

  7. A Jesuit-led effort for descendants of its former slaves ...

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    The effort represents a unique partnership led by the Jesuits and a group of descendants linked to the order’s 1838 sale of 272 men, women and children from its five Maryland plantations to ...

  8. Employee motivation - Wikipedia

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    Employee motivation is an intrinsic and internal drive to put forth the necessary effort and action towards work-related activities. It has been broadly defined as the "psychological forces that determine the direction of a person's behavior in an organisation, a person's level of effort and a person's level of persistence". [1]

  9. Glossary of British terms not widely used in the United States

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    "Chav" is used throughout England, though "charv" or "charva" was originally used in the northeast, deriving from the Roma word charva, meaning a disreputable youth. cheeky * impertinent; noun form, cheek, impertinence; a child answering back to an adult might be told "don't give me any of your cheek" (also there is the expression "cheeky ...