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<DIV>In a message dated 3/3/2005 8:08:49 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
joe@quirk.net writes:</DIV>
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style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>"Once
you win, you've got a reputation to live up to, even if you weren't so
inclined, you get surrounded by an entourage that's also heavily invested in
your reputation," said Redelmeier. "So you end up sleeping properly every
night, eating well, exercising regularly every day</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
<DIV>This statement, as you've pointed out, Joe, is riddled with not-so-hidden
assumptions. Getting a reputation to live up to would make some folks edgy
as hell--and nearly suicidal if they couldn't live up to their previous
achievements and seemed to be slipping badly. </DIV>
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<DIV>Some folks feel utterly isolated and unwanted even when they're surrounded
by an entourage. Some wonder if the entourage is simply there for the
glory of association with a big name or is really there for THEM, for the inner
human stripped of his or her fame and accomplishments.</DIV>
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<DIV>And some folks feel utterly bereft when the reach a pinnacle. They
feel they have nothing new to strive for, and the goal-lessness leaves them
drowning in the acid of depression.</DIV>
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<DIV>I've seen all these things happen to the stars I've worked with.</DIV>
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<DIV>Which means that how you take winning an Oscar is a matter of
perception. Some folks can see new horizons beckoning from even the worst
of things. Others can see new hells in even the greatest glories.</DIV>
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<DIV>My guess, a hypothesis to consider, is that those who see the best in
what's around them, those who see opportunities even in catastrophe, are most
likely to attract the kind of popularity among Academy of Motion Picture Arts
and Sciences members that makes an Oscar possible.
Howard</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 face=Arial size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF"
PTSIZE="10">----------<BR>Howard Bloom<BR>Author of The Lucifer Principle: A
Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History and Global Brain: The Evolution
of Mass Mind From The Big Bang to the 21st Century<BR>Visiting Scholar-Graduate
Psychology Department, New York University; Core Faculty Member, The Graduate
Institute<BR>www.howardbloom.net<BR>www.bigbangtango.net<BR>Founder:
International Paleopsychology Project; founding board member: Epic of Evolution
Society; founding board member, The Darwin Project; founder: The Big Bang Tango
Media Lab; member: New York Academy of Sciences, American Association for the
Advancement of Science, American Psychological Society, Academy of Political
Science, Human Behavior and Evolution Society, International Society for Human
Ethology; advisory board member: Youthactivism.org; executive editor -- New
Paradigm book series.<BR>For information on The International Paleopsychology
Project, see: www.paleopsych.org<BR>for two chapters from <BR>The Lucifer
Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History, see
www.howardbloom.net/lucifer<BR>For information on Global Brain: The Evolution of
Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century, see
www.howardbloom.net<BR></FONT></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>