A SHAW THING: While countless theater fans have enjoyed the musical My Fair Lady over the decades, some may be unaware that its based on a play by George Bernard Shaw. Starting next Wednesday, J-Town Playhouse will present that play, Pygmalion, at the AACIs Max and Gianna Glassman Family Center in Jerusalem. The director, Yardena Buxner, stuck closely to Shaws version, but she made Eliza a very strong character, producer Jennifer Fleischer tells Haaretz. Shes captivating throughout the entire show. Its what I love about it, adds Fleischer, a professional archaeologist who grew up in Connecticut and moved to Israel in late 2015. Shiri Berzack will portray Eliza Doolittle, while Nachum Hackett will play the part of Prof. Henry Higgins. Fleischer is part of a team of three producers with Layla Schwartz and Aviella Shapiro, who have replaced J-Towns longtime producer Rafi Poch, who left at the end of 2016. The show runs through September 7. For tickets call (02) 561-1181, ext. 311.

CAPTURING THE VOICES OF 48: With Israels 70th birthday approaching next year, Belgian-born Nomi Schlosser felt the urgency to collect stories from the 1948 generation. Since November, she has interviewed 70 such people for her project, entitled The Youth of 1948, and still wants to do another 50. This is something that cannot wait to be done, she says. I just lost a person who is 100 before I could interview her. Schlosser says her project differs from other documentaries because it gets into the personal little story that is not in the history books, which she feels people connect to more. People she met included a former neighbor of Menachem Begin and a couple married 70 years who met on an Etzel underground mission. Her subjects include native English speakers Ruth Stern, Hoshana HaCohen and Zippy Porath. The project has become a full-time mission for the playwright-director, so she has launched a crowdfunding campaign on Jewcer to help complete the project. For more information, visit Theyouthof1948project.com.

NEW IMMIGRANTS TOUCH DOWN: The latest group flight of 233 immigrants from North America touched down at Ben-Gurion International Airport on Tuesday, among them 70 young adults planning to join the Israel Defense Forces. With the second Nefesh BNefesh charter flight of the summer, Israel is gaining several medical professionals, future lone soldiers and individuals committed to reinvigorating the countrys periphery, along with hundreds of other dynamic Olim, the immigrant support organization announced. NbN noted the flight was facilitated in cooperation with Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael, the Immigrant Absorption Ministry, the Jewish Agency, JNF-USA and Tzofim-Garin Tzabar. The group included 26 medical professionals. There were 20 families in all, with 64 children. Todays Olim, all from diverse communities and backgrounds, are Israels 21st century pioneers, helping to build the country, using their individual strengths and talents, said Rabbi Yehoshua Fass, NbNs co-founder and executive director.

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Since training at art school, Martin Creed has won a Turner prize for his piece featuring a light being turned on and off in an empty room and choreographed a ballet for Sadlers Wells. Now he talks to Nick Clark about his latest challenge a month-long run of his live show Words and Music at the Edinburgh International Festival.

As a Turner prize-winning artist, why take a stage show to Edinburgh as part of the international festival?

Ive felt, in live shows, theres a chance to mix things up, which feels more true to me and true to life. In a live show, theres a chance to mix up words, pictures and music. What I do is not art and its not performance art.

How would you describe Words and Music?

Its probably a mixture of theatre, cabaret, music gig, all sorts of things. I would think of it like inviting a load of people around to your house to show them what youve been thinkingabout.

You say no two shows are the same. Isthatdaunting, trying to constantly evolvethe work live?

Aye, its really scary. But you can respond to fear in different ways. When I think it hasnt gone well, its because I feel I havent been willing to fail. When you dont give a shit youreprobably at your best.

Youve never done a month in Edinburgh, why now?

Its a chance to work. Ive been working more and more on mixing words and music. Partly through films. Doing this isaway of working onideas that may end up in other works.

How did you construct thisshow?

I didnt really need anything. Theres a big screen and I could have done it without it. AndIcould have done it without amplification.

Were there themes you wanted to tackle?

The main point was to think out loud and work without prejudice and do it freshly. Iwork a lot on the day, writing ideas. The main themes are to try to talk about communicating. The other theme is borders: country borders, whats going on in the world, refugees. But also the personal borders between you and everyone else. Its all about being there in theroom.

Around the first major survey of your work at the Hayward Gallery in 2014, you talked of being influenced by Samuel Beckett. Inwhat way?

I got into Beckett at art school. I loved it. He always goes back to basics Its about the difficulty of living and trying to get along. Life is hard. Beckett inspired me to look at things inadifferent way. His work is very involved inthe process of living and working.

Is that reflected in your work?

If my work is about anything its about trying and showing the trying. The reason I do live work is because when I did sculpture or painting at art school, I thought the finished product was just the tip of the iceberg. The bit on the wall was the leftovers, the sediment at the bottom of the glass. I prefer the process ofdrinking the wine.

Did you do performance while studying atthe Slade School of Fine Art?

I dont like the word performance todescribe it, though thats the word they used. Its live action with people. Maybe thats not a good way to talk about it either. Everything is live action. A painting is live action because the people who see it are alive. Seeing it is a live theatrical experience as much as anything else.

So is it all art?

I wouldnt call any of it art just because its toodifficult a word.

What is your relationship with theatre?

In dramatic plays for the first five minutes its often weird because they speak in an odd way, then people suspend their disbelief and theyre in it. I cant do that. To me its about trying to keep it real. Theres always great danger in that, not believing in it enough, the fantasy.

So do you not go to the theatre?

I do go, depending whats on. Shakespeares about the best. I get bored with a lot of theatre but I dont tend to with Shakespeare. When I was growing up in a suburb of Glasgow, I used to go to the Citizens Theatre and it was free to get in, or at least very cheap. I used to see alot of George Bernard Shaw as well. I felt I saw alot of theatre growing up, as well as weird artstuff. It must have had an effect.

What about the Edinburgh festivals?

I never came to the Edinburgh festivals growing up. The first time I enjoyed Edinburgh was when I came here to do the ballet at the Traverse Theatre in 2010. We did nine performances. I loved doing multiple performances and going to see things. Nothing is ever finished, its working towards somethingelse.

Do you get asked to do set design, like fellow Turner prize-winner Anish Kapoor did last year for English National Opera?

I have been asked. I was asked by Sadlers Wells to do something like that but it led to the work in which I choreographed the ballet. It began by them contacting me as a visual artist. I wanted to work with the dancers.

Your Work No 227, the light turning on and off in an empty room, which won the Turner Prize, feels theatrical. Is it?

Aye. Ive always thought all that is, is a really stupid experiment with a theatrical device. The lights going on and off, wherever you look in the room you see the work. Its also like music as its all around you. It was an experiment. After I did it, I just liked it.

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Manchester United attacker Anthony Martial is hopeful of enjoying a successful campaign personally as well as in terms of winning titles for the team.

Martial struggled under Jose Mourinho last term but the Frenchman looks in good nick during the current campaign.

The 21-year old has now stated his ambition that he wants to enjoy a successful season by winning a lot of titles and do so, by playing for the Red Devils on a regular basis.

Martial said: "As a squad, we haven't really talked about specific aims for the season too much so far, but the goal is to win as many titles as possible.

"That is what we tried to do last year and it's what we are going to try to do this year. Personally, my main goal is to win titles and medals, of course. I also want to play the most. I have always wanted to play since I was young and so now I've got to do my best to win the title. I do set myself targets for appearances and goals but I keep that to myself."

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People always ask we: What are the keys to success in life and business?

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I could talk for hours on the subject -- particularly about whats worked for me. But, truth is, all successful people answer a bit differently. Thats why, when I meet people like Elizabeth Weil, a dedicated distance runner and one of the most successful women in the venture capital field, I ask them the same question. I want to learn from them.

As a child, Weil watched her mother take up running and swimming as therapy for a divorce. Shed wake up before dawn to get in a good swim or run -- every day, no matter what.Morning exercise was non-negotiable. She was out the door every morning around 4, because she knew that time of day was not going to be compromised by work or family or anything else, Weil says today. She could always get her workout in.

Today, Weil treats her run with the same reverenceeven with three kids (including infant twins) and an incredibly demanding career. For me, she says, running is a non-negotiable.Every job, every vacation, every business trip, I have my running shoes and I make time for it. Usually I get up very early, like my mother, and I just get it done. I feed one baby, I feed the other baby, and then I get out the door.

This doesnt mean that life doesnt occasionally happen in unexpected ways. Things do come up, but I still get my running in.

It probably helps that Weil surrounds herself with like-minded people. My husband is also an ultra-runner, she says. We joke that if going out to brunch was a non-negotiable, our relationship probably wouldnt work.

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When I asked Weil to boil her success down to a few takeaways, she answers immediately, which tells me that Im talking to a person with a clear and well-defined plan for success. With Weil, these four elements underlie everything else:

Working with great people, in a great location, and carving out time for non-negotiables are also parts of my long-standing recipe for success. However, Weils fourth elementhaving a personal advisory boardis a new one for me, and Im going to put that into practice.

Weil also talks about the fact that success in business is about more than just working your butt off. Admittedly, you need to work really, really hard in the job youve got if you want people to respect you and give you better opportunities. But you also need to be a people person.

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I learned this the hard way because I didnt make time for people when I was at Twitter, she says. I was so busy with my job there that I didnt make connections for my next job. I tell people now, When you pop up for your next job, youll wish you had gotten to know more people.

You almost never get a job by uploading your rsum to a blind website. Jobs come from people you know, word of mouth, so you need to be good at your job and to also foster relationships.

The simple truth is that very few women are high-level decision makers at venture capital firms. Weil is one of only a handful. But it doesnt surprise me at all that she has made it to the top when so many others havent, because she learned how to be successful early on from her mom.

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Another thing I take away from my conversation with Weil: Our kids watch us and they learn from what we do. We owe them the extra effort. My kids watch me with my non-negotiables, which for me are health and wellness and with the effort I put into my business and family.

My kids learn what it takes to succeed without me sitting them down and lecturing them. I live the lesson, and that is a pretty awesome parenting tool.

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Id like to share the story of a good friend of mine. Its a Canadian success story. What is happening to his family, and others like them, should concern all of us.

The story

Warren owns a successful business in Burlington, Ont., and employs 125 people. He has poured his blood, sweat and tears into the business since starting it 25 years ago.

He has sacrificed much. He didnt spend enough time with his children when they were younger, because the business demanded his attention. Further, he put all his assets at risk over the years by making personal guarantees to borrow the funds necessary to grow the business. The early days were tough. He reminded me of a time when he had to take cash advances on his credit cards just to pay his staff. He took no salary for the first two years the business was in operation.

Warrens wife, Jeanie, made sacrifices, too. She gave up her full-time job to focus on their children and household, allowing Warren to focus on the business. Warren is the first to acknowledge that Jeanie has been as critical to the success of the business as he has been. Shes been a rock of stability at home. More than this, the equity in their home, which she helped to build while she was working, enabled Warren to borrow enough money to create a business that provides its employees with growing incomes, and has made many of them very well off financially.

Today, Warren and Jeanie are reaping the rewards of the risks and sacrifices theyve made. With the success of the business, Warren now has a good income. Jeanie shares in this success by receiving dividends from the company, as do the children, who have also made sacrifices over the years. None of the employees begrudge this familys financial success. On the contrary, they are grateful to be beneficiaries of the hard work and risks that started the business, which now provides them with good incomes.

The problem

Warren is irate. Tim, there is no way I would make the same sacrifices all over again if I were starting the business today. I simply wouldnt bother.

I asked him why he felt this way. The government today has changed the tax system so much, and is planning to change it again to stack the odds against the small-business owner. If I did this all over again, Id move to the United States first.

When the Liberals won the last federal election, they quickly increased personal tax rates on the financially successful often business owners to give more to others. Although Warren wasnt happy about the tax-rate increases made effective in 2016, he tolerated them because he believes he should pay a higher percentage of tax than people with lower incomes. He buys into the idea of a progressive tax system.

This Liberal government, however, seems so focused on the idea of redistribution of wealth that it completely fails to recognize that when a business owner becomes successful, and increases their income and net worth in the process, those employed by the business become better off as well. Successful businesses produce more, and more highly paid, employees.

When a business owner risks everything they own, is it so terrible that they should, say, triple their income and net worth, especially if it means the employees of the business double theirs, over time? Apparently this is a problem for the Liberals.

Proposed tax changes introduced on July 18 are designed to reduce the ability of business owners such as Warren to split income with family members, unless those family members have contributed meaningful labour and capital. I guess Jeanies sacrifices dont count here. I think Finance Minister Bill Morneau needs to explain that to her personally.

The proposals also will restrict Warrens ability to save money for retirement inside his corporation. The Liberals want Warren and Jeanie to be treated exactly like any employee who hasnt started an active business and owns a corporation. Perhaps Mr. Morneau should explain to Warren why the risks and sacrifices he made to create 125 jobs shouldnt provide him with any benefits greater than what his employees receive.

If the Liberals are trying to build a stronger middle class, as they claim, they will be doing exactly the opposite by penalizing small-business owners for their success.

Tim Cestnick, FCPA, FCA, CPA(IL), CFP, TEP, is an author and founder of WaterStreet Family Offices.

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The CEO of the Success Academy charter schools forcefully distanced herself from President Trump in a Thursday note to parents and staff.

Citing Trumps response to the weekend violence in Charlottesville, Eva Moskowitz, who had aligned herself with the president over his pro-charter stance, ripped him in the message, which was emailed out to parents, and said she should have publicly denounced him earlier.

His comments have left many in our community feeling unsafe and uncertain about their place in society, Moskowitz said.

Its one thing to have a President with whose politics you disagree; its another to have a President who doesnt even seem to care about your welfare.

The repudiation comes after a period of guarded and politically perilous engagement between Moskowitz and the Trump camp.

While the lifelong Democrat voted for Hillary Clinton, Trumps vocal endorsement of charter school growth compelled some measure of collaboration and Moskowitz was even considered for education secretary at one point. She later endorsed his selection of Betsy DeVos for the post.

The Success Academy architect met with Trump after the election and gave a school tour to his daughter, Ivanka. A subsequent hosting of House Speaker Paul Ryan at a Harlem campus drew a block long crowd of jeering protesters and underscored Moskowitzs fraught political dilemma.

Those overtures offended many in largely Democratic New York City including some charter backers who deemed anything but blanket condemnation of the new administration as inadequate.

Moskowitz , a former city councilwoman from Manhattan, had been largely silent on Trumps turbulent presidency in recent months.

But in the wake of Charlottesville and a damaging racial gaffe by Success Academy board chairman Dan Loeb, Moskowitz aimed to thoroughly sever any associations with the Trump administration.

As I explained when I announced that I was turning down a potential opportunity to serve as Secretary of Education, I voted for Hillary Clinton and was sorely disappointed she didnt win, Moskowitz wrote. I am a Democrat and disagree with virtually all of President Trumps policy positions including those on healthcare, LGBTQ rights, civil rights, immigration, global warming, gun control, and tax reform.

I chose not to speak publicly about these disagreements, however, because I feel my responsibility as CEO of Success Academy is not to advance my personal beliefs on a broad range of political issues but instead to focus all of my energies on advocating for our kids and public policies that expand educational opportunity and parent choice, she wrote.

Moskowitz said her muted approach was wrongly interpreted as tacit support and that pre-existing charter school nemeses seized onto the perception to harm the sector as a whole.

In retrospect, I should have been more outspoken so that no one would possibly think that either Success Academy or I was tacitly supporting President Trumps policies, which are contrary to the values of respect, caring, and concern that are central to our mission, she said.

The missive made no mention of the controversy over Loeb, who used racially inflammatory language to rip state Senate Democratic leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins as beholden to politically potent teachers unions.

Meanwhile, hypocrites like Stewart-Cousins who pay fealty to powerful union thugs and bosses do more damage to people of color than anyone who has ever donned a hood, Loeb wrote in a Facebook post that he later deleted.

In a prior note this week, Moskowitz condemned Loebs language but said entrenched charter foes were unfairly latching onto the debacle in order to malign Success Academy and its mission.

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Alison Bender and Liam Twomey look back on the latest from Antonio Conte, as he endures a tough start to the season.

There is not a single doubt that Roman Abramovich's reign as owner has seen the fortunes of Chelsea Football Club soar to unknown heights. Every conceivable trophy has been won while the club's global profile has been elevated to sit among the cream of football's aristocracy.

But no relationship is without its flaws and one of the common threads throughout the last 14 years has been the quest for something beyond merely winning. After Jose Mourinho led Chelsea to their first English title in half a century in 2005 and backed it up with another the following year, the need to win in a certain style suddenly became all-important.

The vanity purchases of Andriy Shevchenko and Fernando Torres each came soon after a title was claimed, but instead of ushering in a period of dominance the team's top-flight supremacy was undermined on each occasion.

In the past few years the focus has switched to winning trophies while also turning a profit. Ostensibly the route towards this is by buying young players with potential who will either make the grade at Chelsea or be sold on for a tidy sum.

While this policy looks good on paper, in reality it presents a paradox. Trying to climb the summits of the Premier League and Champions League without constant reinvestment is like trying to scale Everest without crampons. It just isn't going to happen.

Financial prudence and the nurturing of young players is a noble pursuit though the Chelsea board are kidding themselves if they think it will lead to sporting nirvana at the same time. Either trophies or youth development can be realistically targeted, not both.

The last two decades have seen Chelsea supporters experience an extraordinary roller coaster of a journey. Given the relatively scant amount of silverware in the Stamford Bridge trophy cabinet prior to the last 20 years, most fans that remember what it used to be like should be able to accept the odd fallow period now and again.

But Abramovich does not do fallow, so whenever standards start to slip the fall guy is inevitably the unfortunate manager. Carlo Ancelotti was the first under the Russian to start genuinely blooding young players with Gael Kakuta and Josh McEachran featuring. But the crime of finishing second a year after securing the club's first and only double saw him summarily dismissed in the players' tunnel at Goodison Park.

The start of Mourinho's second spell at Chelsea seemed portentous after it was made clear that part of his brief was to provide a pathway for youth products to graduate to the senior side. Indeed, in 2014, he even asserted that so promising were Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Lewis Baker, Izzy Brown and Dominic Solanke that they were destined to play for England.

Within 18 months, Mourinho had been sacked by the club for a second time with none of those players having been provided sufficient opportunity to make an impact on the first team.

The aims and practices of the club seem to continually conflict. Instant success is targeted that precipitates significant outlay on major signings such as the arrival of Cesc Fabregas and Diego Costa in 2014 and N'Golo Kante, David Luiz and Marcos Alonso in 2016.

When success is subsequently acquired the club board then tighten the purse strings and demand that the team's exploits are repeated under completely different conditions.

The same seems to be happening this summer. True, Chelsea have spent the substantial figure of 130 million on Alvaro Morata, Tiemoue Bakayoko and Antonio Rudiger. But given the 60m received for Oscar in January and the 40m for Nemanja Matic, as well as the proceeds from the sales of Nathaniel Chalobah, Nathan Ake and others, the actual investment is not all that high. In any case, that trio have essentially just replaced the exiled Diego Costa, the departed Matic and the ageing John Terry.

Neither the first team nor the wider squad have been materially strengthened. At the same time, Chelsea'a brightest prospects such as Loftus-Cheek and Baker have once again been loaned out, making a mockery of their policy of promoting youth. The consequence is that Antonio Conte has been stripped of the resources to successfully defend the title, whether via his preferred route of signing experienced campaigners or by fielding homegrown talent.

In Friday's news conference ahead of the trip to Spurs, Conte was asked whether he regretted the club's decision to sell Chalobah and loan out Loftus-Cheek. His long pause and refusal to answer the question spoke volumes.

If history has taught us anything it is that Conte will be the one to carry the can if Chelsea's house of cards collapses. Everyone will know, however, that it is not the Italian that is ultimately to blame.

Phil is one of ESPN's Chelsea bloggers. You can follow him on Twitter @PhilLythell.

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Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. -Thomas Jefferson

God prefaces many of His commandments with the line when you enter the land, meaning, many of these commandments need to wait until were in the Promised Land or are somehow dependent on the land itself. However, after one of these common introductions God goes on to give an unusually specific location and direction as to where the people of Israel should go and what they should do there.

He orders them to congregate at the twin mountains of Gerizim and Ebal next to the city of Shechem. There, in what turns out to be a massive natural amphitheater, the assembled nation of Israel are to proclaim the blessings that will be accorded to themselves and their descendants should they listen to Gods commandments, as well as the curses that will befall them should they choose to ignore Gods directives. What is physically unusual about the setting is that although the two mountains are almost identical in their shape, size, location and elevation, Mount Gerizim is verdant and alive; Mount Ebal is barren and desolate. Not surprisingly, the blessings were uttered upon Mount Gerizim, the curses on Mount Ebal.

Rabbi Hirsch on Deuteronomy 11:29 elaborates:

Both of them rise from the same soil, both are watered by the same precipitation rain and dew. The same air passes over them both; the same pollen is blown over them both. Yet Ebal remains starkly barren, while Gerizim is covered with lush vegetation to its very top.

Thus we see that blessings and curses are not dependent on external circumstances. Hence, whether we are blessed or cursed is not dependent on the superficial conditions that are imposed upon us, but on how we deal with them on our attitude

Whether we are blessed or cursed is not dependent on any outside force. Our fate doesnt rely on good or bad luck. Happenstance should not determine our inner reality. The opposite is true. Our attitude, how we see the world, how we perceive things, how we react, how we internalize the reality around us, that will determine whether we are blessed or cursed. It is completely in our hands.

May we be grateful for the blessings in our lives and see it as such.

Shabbat Shalom

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A recent study published in theJournal of Personality and Social Psychologyand reported byEmotion Researchersurveyed nearly 1,300 American adults to better understand the relationship between accepting our emotions and mental health.

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Iris Mauss, a professor of psychology at UC Berkeley and principal investigator in the study explained: "We found that people who habitually accept their negative emotions experience fewer negative emotions, which adds up to better psychological health."

While it's difficult to say exactly why that is, she think that when we accept negative emotions, we normalize them and give them less attention. According to Mauss, "if youre constantly judging your emotions, the negativity can pile up."

Those who resist their emotions or judge them are more likely to experience mood swings than those who accept feelings of sadness, disappointment and bitterness.

As Brett Ford, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Toronto, explains in an article available on the UC Berkeley site, "People who accept these emotions without judging or trying to change them are able to cope with their stress more successfully."

Three different tests were conducted on diverse groups of people, both in the lab and online, taking into account their age, gender, socio-economic status and other demographic variables.

"Its easier to have an accepting attitude if you lead a pampered life, which is why we ruled out socio-economic status and major life stressors that could bias the results," Mauss said.

In the first study, approximately 1,000 participants were given a questionnaire in which they had to rate how strongly they agreed with the following statement: "I tell myself I shouldnt be feeling the way that Im feeling." In general, those who did not feel bad about their feelings had higher levels of well-being.

In the second study, 150 people participated in a simulated job interview in which they had to describe their strengths and talents by giving a three-minute-long videotaped speech in front of a panel, after being allowed only ten minutes to prepare.

The participants then rated how they felt afterward. Those with a tendency to avoid their negative emotions had more difficulty with the test and showed higher levels of anxiety than those who were used to accepting their emotions.

Finally, over 200 people were invited to keep a journal about their most difficult experiences over a two-week period. Six months later, they were interviewed about their mental health, and no surprise those who had denied their emotions in regard to difficult experiences reported more symptoms of mood disorders than the others.

The next step for the researchers will be to examine factors such as culture and education to better understand why some people are more inclined to accept their emotions than others. As Mauss explained:

"By asking parents about their attitudes about their childrens emotions, we may be able to predict how their children feel about their emotions, and how that might affect their childrens mental health."

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