Impulse Control Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/essays/impulse-control/ Vincent Ryan Ruggiero - Author of books and essays Wed, 14 Feb 2018 20:55:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://mind-at-work.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/cropped-open-book-32x32.png Impulse Control Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/essays/impulse-control/ 32 32 Nancy Reagan, Nike, and American Culture https://mind-at-work.com/nancy-reagan-nike-and-american-culture/ Wed, 14 Feb 2018 20:38:42 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=2563 What could these three possibly have in common? In 1986 Reagan offered a message of restraint—“Just say no”—recalling a moral perspective that had been central to American culture for most of the country’s history. In 1988 Nike coined a new slogan—Just do it”—that (intentionally or unintentionally) summed up the contrasting perspective of indulgence that was [...]

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