Sunday, June 24, 2012
Your time is limited - Steve Jobs
"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life and don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your inner voice. Most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become." - Steve Jobs (2005)
Friday, June 22, 2012
Dunning Kruger effect
The Dunning-Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority, whilst actual competent individuals may lack such self-confidence as they (competent individuals) may falsely assume that others have an equivalent understanding!
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
TEOTWAWKI
The world can be divided into two types of people. Those who have googled TEOTWAWKI and those who haven't!
Independent Security
In 1944, Blatz wrote about independent security as follows:
> Independent security can be attained only in one way, by the acquisition of a skill through learning. Whenever an individual is presented with a situation for which he is inadequately prepared or whenever he is striving for something and finds that his preparation is inadequate, he must make one of two choices, either to retreat or to attack. This situation is emotionally charged, but there is more than the emotional content in such situations. The individual must, if he is to attack, emerge from the security of a dependent sort and accept the state of insecurity. His attack, of course, will result in learning; the degree of skill which he acquires will depend on his persistence. But once having learned, he will meet this situation in the future with assurance, because now he possesses a behaviour pattern which makes it possible for him to adapt himself satisfactorily. Furthermore, he has become familiar with the consequences of his advance and is willing to face them. Such a skill, having been acquired through his own effort cannot be subject to the same kind of crisis as the other agents which have been described. (p. 167)
Blatz as quoted in The Secure Child, Richard Volpe (Editor)
> Independent security can be attained only in one way, by the acquisition of a skill through learning. Whenever an individual is presented with a situation for which he is inadequately prepared or whenever he is striving for something and finds that his preparation is inadequate, he must make one of two choices, either to retreat or to attack. This situation is emotionally charged, but there is more than the emotional content in such situations. The individual must, if he is to attack, emerge from the security of a dependent sort and accept the state of insecurity. His attack, of course, will result in learning; the degree of skill which he acquires will depend on his persistence. But once having learned, he will meet this situation in the future with assurance, because now he possesses a behaviour pattern which makes it possible for him to adapt himself satisfactorily. Furthermore, he has become familiar with the consequences of his advance and is willing to face them. Such a skill, having been acquired through his own effort cannot be subject to the same kind of crisis as the other agents which have been described. (p. 167)
Blatz as quoted in The Secure Child, Richard Volpe (Editor)
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
若要人不知，除非己莫为
Pinyin: ruò yào rén bù zhī, chú fēi jǐ mò wéi
Meaning: If you don't want anyone to find out, don't do it.
Translation & Pinyin
Meaning: If you don't want anyone to find out, don't do it.
Translation & Pinyin
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