The anxiety diversion tactic: Creating stress is an excellent way to avoid dealing with the frightening tasks necessary for personal growth.

用来转移焦虑的“战术”：制造压力是一个绝好方法去逃避处理在个人成长中必要的令人可怕的任务。

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The Kenny Report is an unusual diversion tactic, but it secured a scholarship for him to pursue an undergraduate degree in law at a London university.

BBC: Pulling gang members back from the brink

The fifth tactic was diversion and deflection.

CNN: Transcript: Judiciary Committee impeachment hearing

Defining the enemy by its tactic was a strange conceptual diversion that immediately made the focus too narrow (what about the ideology behind the terror?) and too broad (were we at war with all terrorists and their supporters everywhere?).

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