Ability
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Because skills develop with exposure over time, repeated exposure to everyday situations that kids encounter: self-soothing skills or the
ability
to calm oneself down when upset; problem-solving skills, including the
ability
to resolve conflicts with others; delay of gratification, or the
ability
to keep your efforts going despite the fact that you have to wait over time to see what happens.
But whether we are young or old, excessive anxiety leads us to overestimate risk and distress while underestimating our
ability
to cope.
And it's known that if people have damage in the fusiform gyrus, they may lose the
ability
to recognize faces.
We've worked hard with a few of them to develop the capacity to consistently manufacture components at the quality levels we need, like this supplier in Nairobi, who are helping to reduce the production cost of metal brackets and improve their
ability
to build conformant parts to our engineering drawings.
I investigate photography's
ability
to blur truth and fiction, and its influence on memory, which can lead to severe, even lethal consequences.
Now, I'm not suggesting that that affects their
ability
to be fantastic parents, but for Emma and I, we came to adoption very differently.
There is still the very real fear that social workers somehow have the
ability
to waltz into families and just take children away, without any hint of concern.
We were given homework to do, our parents were interviewed, our friends were interviewed, and it was all around our
ability
to be assessed to provide what's called "therapeutic parenting."
Hedge’s
ability
to store information in a table will help here.
And that's the
ability
to exploit opposing ideas and opposing constraints to create new solutions.
Because we can change the world, we have the
ability.
And more recently, a lot of you will be aware of robotic surgery, and what robotics brings to surgery is much like modern automated machinery, ultraprecision, the
ability
to carry out procedures at the tiniest scales with a degree of accuracy that even surpasses the human hand.
So we have to have the
ability
to talk all the levels, to go to where they are.
Power is the
ability
not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.
Because nearly every living system has evolved the
ability
to detect light in one way or another.
The parable has been my warning that by gripping tightly to the story of good or bad, I close down my
ability
to truly see a situation.
So the therapist said we should devise a splint, which would rob my kid of the
ability
to actually use those fingers, but it would at least force them into some position that looked normal.
Our education system is predicated on the idea of academic
ability.
And the second is academic ability, which has really come to dominate our view of intelligence, because the universities design the system in their image.
But the one thing holding them back is the
ability
to discriminate.
What we're seeing with consumers right now is the
ability
for them to actually lead us forward out of this recession.
This sort of
ability
to do everything in new ways unleashes potential, not least in the area of medicine.
But that
ability
to make progress remained almost unused, until the event that revolutionized the human condition and changed the universe.
Language
ability
is typically measured in two active parts, speaking and writing, and two passive parts, listening and reading.
And, very simply, and I'm really cutting it short because of the time limits here, it's essentially the
ability
of a country to attract others because of its culture, its political values, its foreign policies.
So you see these astonishing demonstrations: Voodoo acolytes in a state of trance handling burning embers with impunity, a rather astonishing demonstration of the
ability
of the mind to affect the body that bears it when catalyzed in the state of extreme excitation.
I'm fascinated by its
ability
to deeply investigate the human being, its way of working, its way of feeling.
So it uses some plants to do this job, selected for their gas-filtering
ability.
And in this one, plants are used for the water filtration
ability.
I just think we're not seeing, at the moment, the huge opportunities open to us by the
ability
of people to cooperate in a world where either there was isolationism before or there was limited alliances based on convenience which never actually took you to deal with some of the central problems.
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