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Showing posts with label Postmodern Life. Show all posts

6 Ways to Slow Down and Save Time | World of Psychology

6 Ways to Slow Down and Save Time | World of Psychology:

Retrieved from http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2012/03/27/6-ways-to-slow-down-and-save-time/



6 Ways to Slow Down and Save TimeMoving by the seat of our pants isn’t that helpful for efficiency. For one, rushing can mean making silly but time-consuming mistakes, like misplacing important items, locking your keys inside the house or glossing over errors at work.
And we might miss out on life altogether. “When things go too fast, we aren’t cognitively able to process the information, so a lot of our lives literally whizzes by,” according to Christine Louise Hohlbaum, author of The Power of Slow: 101 Ways to Save Time in Our 24/7.
Below, Hohlbaum shares several helpful tips on slowing down and saving time.


Time Space Compression

Time Space Compression:
Retrieved from http://it.stlawu.edu/~pomo/mike/timespac.html

"This one world, works increasingly faster, leading to the common understanding in Wall Street that 24 hours is a very long time in the world of international finance (Harvey). This is especially true considering that in one second, a bank computer can switch millions of dollars from one national currency to another in response to a slight fluctuation in exchange, and in the process gain millions of dollars out of nothing. This serves as a prime example, and almost the culmination, of the capitalist dream of ever-shortening turnover time. For the production process can be bypassed and spatial barriers skipped altogether via electronic banking systems which profit off of speculation."

Career Development for Meaningful Life Work Digest

Career Development for Meaningful Life Work:
Good article, lots of references

http://www.vtaide.com/png/ERIC/Life-Work.htm

Future Workshop

Future Workshop

The future workshop is one of the futurologists Robert Jungk , Rüdiger Lutz and Norbert R. Müllert reasonable method that imagination to stimulate new ideas to develop solutions to social problems. Future workshops are intended to counter program for state planning and a project to empower those who are affected by the corresponding planning. People are intended to play the object of future planning for this very subject and planning, starting from the local context of action to open up greater scope for action. A future workshop can be used anywhere "where have groups of people problems where they progress using conventional means". [1] Experience shows that they for participants of all ages (from pre-school children [2] to the elderly [3] ), and each educational attainment (of jobseekers people without training [4] up to economic managers [5] ) is suitable. It is particularly appreciated by participants who have little experience with the creative decision-making processes, such as children or adolescents . The targeted application requires intensive preparation and supervision by trained moderators .F