What does money really provide
Being wealthy is a powerful predictor that people spend less time doing pleasurable things and more time doing compulsory things – Inspired by Nobel Prize-winning behavioral economist Daniel Kahneman
And this article also went on to add that,
Rich people spent much more time commuting and engaging in activities that were required as opposed to optional
A vital question that one must ask if they are wealthy is, how do I deal with its responsibility.
The rest of this article can be found here…..
Sustainability
What lives dies.
Animal,
vegetable,
enterprise.
No escape.
Not even the wise.
None!
But one—propagation!
Conceive of this:
A stratified
calcified
petrified
Enterprise
in desperation
forgoes habitual cloning
and Tolerates
(allows)
permits. . . .
genuine
birth.
E-learning links
What’s happening with Moodle at the moment?
- Moodle vs Blackboard/WebCT
- Â In the Mood for Moodle – an intro to Moodle (pdf)
- Moodle in Schools – An article from the UK
The difference between success and failure
April 27, 2008 by cgribble
Filed under Leadership
“Rewarding success is easy, rewarding intelligent failure is more important” (Bill Harris, Intuit)
Creativity and Education
How to make navigation interesting
What not to do when teleconferencing
How great men spend organised their time
April 3, 2008 by cgribble
Filed under Self improvement
In this post at LifeDev less is more is definitely true.
The way that great men organised their time is a reminder to all of us that busyness is not always the answer. I think that part of it is about using our most productive times productively.
I know that for myself productiveness also comes in cycles beyond the daily routine. I might have a week where I am incredibly productive and then have another week where I just get the everyday stuff done.
I think one of the hardest things to recognise that after a cycle of productivity comes the routine of making the creation work. Thats hard work and requires perserverance.
Easter
Friendship and community
All of us in community – and especially, perhaps the people with responsibility – can carry a load of frustration which cannot always be expressed in a group without endangering the community itself. The more sensitive we are, the more we are weighed down by those feelings of frustration, anger, anxiety, incompetence, sadness, and apathy. We have a tremendous need to pour all of this out to someone in whom we feel secure. We may need to say how much we detest someone who challenges us, without being accused of a ‘lack of charity’. We may need this outlet for our emotions if we are to refind peace. But the person who becomes our ‘dustbin’ has to have the wisdom to collect all this without getting worked up about it, without trying to set everything right and without either judging or enjoying it; nor should they encourage bad feeling.
Jean Varnier, ‘Community and Growth’, p.142.