It could be you, your message or the environment (context) that is causing the problem. Many people go through life thinking they’re good at reading people’s non-verbal signals. They’ll take a single action by another person and, lacking the requisite empathy to dig further, they’ll ascribe it to a particular feeling — with no back-up information. Needless to say, these people may end up antagonising others (‘No I’m not bored with what you’re telling me; I’m just tired’ … ‘No you’re not — you’re bored, I can tell’ … ‘Will you just leave it for now’ …).
Category: quote
About Free Will
‘The world indeed is forlorn
Of all good as thou speak’st it, and so swarms
With every evil. Yet, beseech thee, point
The cause out to me, that myself may see,
And unto others show it: for in heaven
One places it, and one on earth below.’
Über Projekt-Infrastruktur
“Zur Infrastruktur zählen aber nicht nur für die Produktion von Software wichtige technische Geräte, sondern auch Einrichtungen, die für das Wohlergehen der Mitarbeiter sorgen sollen. Das können Kaffeemaschinen, Getränkeautomaten, Ventilatoren, Kühlschränke, Kochnischen zum Aufwärmen von Essen und viele andere Dinge sein. Auch der Ausfall oder das nicht Vorhandensein dieser Angebote senken die Motivation der Mitarbeiter. Man sollte niemals vergessen: Mitarbeiter sind keine Maschinen, die auf Knopfdruck funktionieren.”
Wolfgang Zuser et al. – Software Engineering
About Fear
Reader! I would not that amazed thou miss
Of thy good purpose, hearing how just God
Decrees our debts be cancelled. Ponder not
The form of suffering. Think on what succeeds,
Think that, at worst, beyond the mighty doom
It cannot pass.
Dante – The Divine Comedy, Purgatorio 10
About That Sad Song
Another lonely night turns to day
With another hair of mine turning grey
No, I can’t really tell you
Just what is wrong, my dear
But still what comes out is
Another sad song
Bandits (The Movie) – Another Sad Song
About Guidance
‘O my loved guide, who more than seven times
Security hast rendered me, and drawn
From peril deep, whereto I stood exposed,
Desert me not,’ I cried, ‘in this extreme.
And, if our onward going be denied,
Together trace we back our steps with speed.’My liege, who thither had conducted me,
Replied: ‘Fear not: for of our passage none
Hath power to disappoint us, by such high
Authority permitted. But do thou
Expect me here; meanwhile, thy wearied spirit
Comfort, and feed with kindly hope, assured
I will not leave thee in this lower world.’
About Meaning
In the last chapter of his book ‘Flow’, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi presents the mesmerised reader with three sides of the word meaning: purpose, resolution, and, ultimately, harmony.
Purpose
In this sense the answer to the old riddle “What is the meaning of life?” turns out to be astonishingly simple. The meaning of life is meaning: whatever it is, wherever it comes from, a unified purpose is what gives meaning to life.