stand ready (to do)

• What happens if you switch between leaning and not leaning every minute :: Daily Portal Z

  • An experiment showing that simply being forced from the outside to react positively or negatively to an object as a rule of the game can have a significant impact on how we see things.

• In Japanese society, there is a "syndrome in which one maintains one's current pride by taking an oblique stance and denying anything that one does not understand within the scope of one's activity level", and I believe that the national "self-respect protection device" of constantly comparing oneself with others will be cured. I think that once this national "self-respect protection device" is cured, the time will come when both the quantity and quality of output will be good. --- @ochyai

  • The syndrome of maintaining one's pride in the current situation by trying to obliquely deny, for the time being, anything that cannot be understood within the scope of one's activity level.
  • It's long, so I'll shorten it. - posture of a person with stiff shoulders - Deny what you don't understand. - self-esteem protection device

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