from here http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-introverts-corner/201003/the-solo-team-player ::
The take-home I’m working towards here is more of a take-to-work, since it can apply to succeeding in our jobs In our culture, we are often exhorted to be a “team player”–and that often implies face-to-face collaboration. But being a team player can mean different things for different people. If we require solitude to reach flow, and I think we do, then we are justified in asserting our need for enough space to formulate our ideas and therefore contribute most effectively to the team’s common goals.
A number of people here have commented on how much they hate team-building exercises. Perhaps our extroverted culture has a too-narrow definition of what working as a team means. What would a team-building exercise look like that takes into account the needs and strengths of both extroverts and introverts?
Elink Video :: Jon Brion's Here We Go
I so so so so so so so so so so so LOVE this song.
Jon Brion writes songs so well suited to the music in a lyrical sense primarily but the song is really a song. not a tune with slapped on lyrics, or poetry pretending to be a song.
Makes one wonder how jon brion composes. does he do it while or after watching a film. does the words come first?
I so love this verse. It’s sooo true. I feel that the reason I liked Punch Drunk Love sooo much is that I see myself in Adam Sandler’s character.
You’ve gotta hope that there’s someone for you
As strange as you are
Who can cope with the things that you do
Without trying too hard
Here We Go
You’ve gotta hope that there’s someone for you
As strange as you are
Who can cope with the things that you do
Without trying too hard
Because you can bend the truth
Until it’s suiting you
These things that you’re wrapping all around you
You never know what they will amount to
And your life is just going on without you
It’s the end of the things you know
Here we go
You’ve gotta know that there’s more to this world
Than what you have seen
Because we all have a limited view
Of what we can be
As we move along with our blinders on
Each one of us feels a little stranded
And you can’t explain or understand it
Each one of us on a different planet
And amidst all the to and fro
Someone can say hello
Here we go
The feeling that someone really gets you
It’s something that no one should object to
It could happen today
So I suggest you skip your habit of laying low
It’s the end of the things you know
Here we go
Because someone can say “Hello,
You old so and so, here we go”
What Do Men Look For In Women!!! :: Does Playing Hard to Get Work? | PsyBlog
things to ponder…. hmm mismo???
The woman who was apparently selectively hard to get, i.e. easy for you but hard for everyone else was the runaway winner for the men. Not only that but men thought the selectively hard to get woman would have all the advantages of the easy to get woman with none of the drawbacks of the hard to get woman. They thought she would be popular, warm and easygoing, but not demanding and difficult.
via Does Playing Hard to Get Work? | PsyBlog.
rePost :: Robert De Niro Cast as Vince Lombardi | /Film
Haven’t seen a great performance from Robert De Niro in a long time. Hope he can make something of this role!
Robert De Niro has signed to play legendary football coach Vince Lombardi in ESPN Films’ big screen feature Lombardi. Academy Award-winning screenwriter Eric Roth (Forrest Gump, Munich, Benjamin Button, The Insider) penned the script. The National Football League is involved in the project, which means we probably won’ see anything controversial in the movie (steroids, alcohol).
I don’t know a lot about football, but looking at photos of Lombardi, you can certainly see how De Niro would be cast in the role. Risky Business says the plan is to release the film between the AFC and NFC conference championship games and the Super Bowl in 2012. The film will focus on Lombardi’s Green Bay Packers years, although ESPN acquired the entire life rights to Lombardi’s story from his estate, as well as the rights to Jerry Kramer and Dick Schaap’s book Instant Replay.
via Robert De Niro Cast as Vince Lombardi | /Film.
rePost :: Capone goes in over his head with the marvelously silly HOT TUB TIME MACHINE!!! — Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.
Capone goes in over his head with the marvelously silly HOT TUB TIME MACHINE!!!
Hey, everyone. Capone in Chicago here.
Sometimes you admire a comedy because of its subtle wit and cleverness, because it keeps a sustained smile on your face that lasts the duration of the film. Other times, you fall head over heals for a comedy because it is balls-out the perfect combination of stupidity and intelligence, with a healthy serving of charm thrown in and a dash of the grotesque. Welcome to HOT TUB TIME MACHINE, folks, a movie that almost dares you not to giggle your way into a frothy stupor. What put this film over the top for me was its complete and utter disregard not only for conventional logic and sensibility, but the film actually bothers to set up its own time-space continuum rules and then breaks them with a wanton disregard for the Butterfly Effect. On the plus side, TIME COP's essential rule about the same person from two different times occupying the same space is cited and dealt with quite effectively. But for God's sake, this isn't a movie about science; it's about partying '80s style, and who better to do that with than John Cusack?
via Capone goes in over his head with the marvelously silly HOT TUB TIME MACHINE!!! — Ain’t It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news..
See I see myself do this a lot. I read something that appeals to who I believe I am and I grab it like a Recovering Alcoholic grabbing his Johnny Walker. I believe I do this, and am probably not alone in doing this because in some ways we have a yearning to validate who we are at least or even only to ourselves. It is that we sometimes grab these things just to say to ourselves we were not wrong. I know this is not a rational way of living. I hope to change this.
If this were the only case where I had this dispiriting result … perhaps I could treat it as an exception. But what I’ve found is every time I did a study like this … there was nobody home in terms of really wanting to know the result.
via Edward Tufte, Ron Howard, and government consulting
rePost::Conceptual Trends and Current Topics
I found this an excellent read. I seem to periodically ask myself this question. How do you live your life and say at the end I wouldn’t have changed a thing. In a way this is the goal I’ve been crawling towards.
When I was about 29 years old I got a spiritual “assignment” on an Easter morning in the old city of Jerusalem. According to this assignment my job was to live as if I had only 6 months left to live. I was in perfect health and in the middle of a ten-year round the world trip, so this interruption was unexpected and strange. I’ve told the full story of that curious mission on the very first episode of This American Life, the public radio storytelling hit, 10 years ago, so I won’t go into further detail because you can hear my account on this streaming audio file from the NPR site.
The short version is that what I decided to do in my last 6 months surprised me, and that living with only 180 days in front of me turned out to be harder than I thought. But I did live with a very conscious countdown toward the final day; I remember that last day very well.
via Conceptual Trends and Current Topics.
rePost::Mind your own business | Filipino Voices
You know what their arguments sound like? The arguments of The Best And The Brightest against letting Vietnam fall. Letting Vietnam fall would lead to the fall of most Asian nations to communism. This reeks of the small mindedness and ultimately wrong headed infallibility approach to policy making.
Mind your own business
March 2nd, 2010 by Manuel Buencamino
“The ratio of tolerance of our bishops towards the excesses of the Arroyo regime is directly proportional to their intolerance for condoms and contraceptives.” – Philip Gilmore
Health secretary Esperanza Cabral decided to distribute free condoms “to those who cannot afford it” because HIV/AIDS cases are spreading at an alarming rate. That earned her the ire of the Catholic Church.
One bishop denounced her timely intervention as immoral and warned her that, “she already has one foot in hell and many more might suffer the same fate” if she did not stop what she was doing.
“It’s very immoral for someone in a government position to support the distribution of condoms which we know, do not really reduce or stop the spread of HIV-AIDS. It’s scary because it’s the morality of our society, especially of our youth, that is at stake. We only wish that Cabral would change because she already has one foot in hell. People might suffer the same fate,” the bishop said.
Another bishop refused to accept the fact that Cabral’s primary duty as the secretary of health is to safeguard the public’s physical wellbeing, not their spiritual health and salvation. He wanted her fired for reasons that would make sense only if the Philippines were a theocratic state like Iran or an Afghanistan under Taliban rule.
“Secretary Cabral should not continue serving until June because the culture and morality of society will be endangered under her. First, she does not respect the big number of Catholics in the country who oppose the distribution of condoms. Second, is she Catholic? I doubt that she is. Because if you are a Catholic and in the government, you should be living the teachings of the Church. But she is doing the opposite.”
rePost :: Malaysian Catholics accept apology over 'desecration' – INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos
Malaysia would occupy a special place in my heart. It’s as close as the ideal I believe a democracy and Islam could co exist. I pray they keep their beautiful society can be kept in their currently beautiful balance.
Malaysian Catholics accept apology over 'desecration'
Agence France-Presse
First Posted 15:01:00 03/07/2010
Filed Under: Religions, Media
KUALA LUMPUR – Catholic authorities in Malaysia on Sunday accepted an apology from a Muslim magazine after its writers took part in a Catholic service and allegedly desecrated the communion wafer.
“We accept the public apology. It is laudable,” Father Lawrence Andrew, the editor of the Catholic “Herald” newspaper, told AFP.
“We trust they will not repeat it. We are not holding any grudges.”
Two journalists from the “Al Islam” magazine took the wafer and spat it out after entering a Catholic church to investigate claims that Muslims were illegally converting to Christianity.
via Malaysian Catholics accept apology over ‘desecration’ – INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos.
New Job Tomorrow Wish Me Luck!!
New Job Tomorrow Wish Me Luck!!