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On any given day in America's news cycle, stories and images of disgraced politicians and celebrities solicit our moral indignation, their misdeeds fueling a lucrative economy of shame and scandal. Shame is one of the most coercive, painful, and intriguing of human emotions. Only in recent years has interest in shame extended beyond a focus on the subjective experience of this emotion and its psychological effects. The essays collected here consider the role of shame as cultural practice and examine ways that public shaming practices enforce conformity and group coherence. Addressing abortion, mental illness, suicide, immigration, and body image among other issues, this volume calls attention to the ways shaming practices create and police social boundaries; how shaming speech is endorsed, judged, or challenged by various groups; and the distinct ways that shame is encoded and embodied in a nation that prides itself on individualism, diversity, and exceptionalism. Examining shame through a prism of race, sexuality, ethnicity, and gender, these provocative essays offer a broader understanding of how America's discourse of shame helps to define its people as citizens, spectators, consumers, and moral actors.

On any given day in America's news cycle, stories and images of disgraced politicians and celebrities solicit our moral indignation, their misdeeds fueling a lucrative economy of shame and scandal. Shame is one of the most coercive, painful, and intriguing of human emotions. Only in recent years has interest in shame extended beyond a focus on the subjective experience of this emotion and its psychological effects. The essays collected here consider the role of shame as cultural practice and examine ways that public shaming practices enforce conformity and group coherence. Addressing abortion, mental illness, suicide, immigration, and body image among other issues, this volume calls attention to the ways shaming practices create and police social boundaries; how shaming speech is endorsed, judged, or challenged by various groups; and the distinct ways that shame is encoded and embodied in a nation that prides itself on individualism, diversity, and exceptionalism. Examining shame through a prism of race, sexuality, ethnicity, and gender, these provocative essays offer a broader understanding of how America's discourse of shame helps to define its people as citizens, spectators, consumers, and moral actors.

Take a snapshot of your life. Does it look and feel out of focus and blurry?

Think about your life like you would a photograph. When it is out of focus what you see is blurry or fuzzy. The last time you took a picture and the camera focus was off or not working, were you disappointed with the result? Could be that the people or the scenery were so blurred that it made everything in the picture unrecognizable. What did you do with it? Did you delete it or toss it out if it was a print?

Someone who is constantly distracted with trivial tweets, computer games, a constant flow of junk email and Smartphone apps will not be nearly as successful as someone who can and does focus his or her mind and behavior. Learning to do this is truly like learning how to unleash the power of your mind. You have a potent tool available when your mind is focused and you make a purposeful decision to concentrate.

Let me ask you, how many times do you check your email, Facebook page and Twitter account per hour? If you are the average heavy multitasker, your answer will be 37 times plus Now ask yourself this question. What is this doing for you? Are you smarter? Are you wealthier? How about happier? Maybe it is high time you seriously looked into this whole idea of focused attention.