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June 24 Yesterday againWhat is old is new..
After the second world war when the soldiers came back from the war, many of the troops had to be retrained for work in a peace time society. It was then that the concept of psychology gained a lot of attention in identifying and directing the workforce.
In a study to redirect the soldiers, several groups were established, when the workers were asked to take a written test and halfway into the test a gunshot was made. After the men realized that there was no harm, some went back to work on the test and while others never really regained their composure in the testing situation. It was discovered from this situation that different people had different means of coping, noisy situations and quiet surroundings. Those who were able to withstand the noisy situationns were put into manage positions where they could use their skills of many distraction to their advantage, while the others who could not stand the noisy situataions were put into drafting and quieter stuations. From these studeies, industry learned alot from how to deal with the different personalities of people.
Now it is the same as our society becomes more complex. We know about ADD, the stiuation where some youngster are hyperactive and have a difficult time focusing on studying. Yet findings are showing that these youngster/adults are able to hyperfocus when they find a situation that they are really interest in. And as time goes by more and more studies will reveal newer insights into ourselves. But these studies will also prove that while we become more empirical about ourselves, our intiutive nature will still follow us as it has been doing for hundreds of years.
Moral: What is new was old before.
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The phone usually stays idle in our household, but on one occassion when I was out gardeninging and enjoying the retirement that I had work so hard to get, I got a call."Hello, Mr. Chee, this is Memar. do you remember me." After I studdered a bit, and him and haw, I said that of the many students that I had, I just can't recall who you are. In fact it was only 4000 students that I have taught and while I was teaching I would remember all their names, brothers and sister, and what their parents did. But on this occasion, dementia had set in . "Memar, you remembered, I was the one who gave you the cigarette paper. " Yes, cigarette paper, I remembered that one, it was a cigarette paper that pencil shaving in it, wrapped to look like illegal drug. " I have finished law school for a few years now and I got a buyer for your property."
Time passes, and after 25 years as I think back to the situation, I remembered that he had lost my property to the bank and I lost all my money in turn in the situation. I really do not regret the lost, but what is really troubling for me is the fact that I did not instill enough value in the former student. After the business venture, I have not heard from him. Still feeling responsible for him, I hope that one day he will learn his lesson.
Moral: Should the phone ring, remember that a hello should only be a hello, and nothing more.
May 29 Counting on youWatch this, daddy, my daughter said, as she took a cottonswab and placed it on fold of her bellybutton. She bent over and said "look, it disappeared, just kidding!" and showed me the cottonswab. No trick at all, no illusion, just her sense of hyper activity. It is surprising to see a young girl of 10 with so much energy that sometimes its amazing that she is not bouncing off the walls in every direction. I tried to calm her down and ask her to help her mother clear the table after eating, to which she replied, "I can't do that, I need to finish my game on the computer." I know it would be useless to argue with her and immediately resort to counting, which is her signal to obey immediately or lose computer time. So in an effort to offset that demand, my daughter would quickly make another proposal to elude the first request. This will continue, until the number 2 is present which indicates that time is short and when 3 is said, then she will lose computer time. As you can imagine this takes no longer than 3 seconds, but in that interim period many emotions and actions take place. So, herein lies the dilemma, how to control and how to release control. Rules are set and norms are presented with expectations to be met, both by the adult and the child. If the adult can, rather should, maintain a calm and steady enforcement of the request, then the child will tend to obey. But if the rules are waivered and yielded, then the expectations are now not certain, for both the adult and the child. So my daughter is expecting to win the battle of wits and proposals, but I will not yield and continue counting until my 3 is said or she yields and does what was requested. Herein the adult can control the time and the expectation. Moral: The adult should be the adult and expect the child to do the right thing. |
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