sunnysardine's blog: 12.09

星期一, 12月 28, 2009

The Age of Stupid

Cop15 had just ended. You can have a look on what was really going on along the meeting of world leaders at Copenhagen from the youtube above, done by The Stupid Show which happens to be the "real movie" of life. Also the director of the film The Age of Stupid, Franny Armstrong, act as a reporter in The Stupid Show.

You can watch the Making of The Age of Stupid here, download of the movie can be done using emule, but just be aware that pirating it illegal!

I had watch the movie last night, err.. my opinion was.. well, right, we are stupid enough, and perhaps stubborn too. And I found it very dedicated for the subtitle done by some Taiwanese. It goes like this:

雖然電影內容批評的對象

感覺好像跟台灣一點關係也沒有

台灣人民似乎只需要同聲譴責美國、英國等大國就好

但給各位一些數字參考一下

2006年各國每人排放二氧化碳噸數

台灣每人每年13.19公噸

Alvin的美國19.78公噸，為台灣的150%

Fernand的法國6.6公噸，為台灣50%

Piers的英國9.66公噸，為台灣73%

Jeh的印度1.16公噸，為台灣的9%

Layefa的奈及利亞0.77公噸，為台灣的6%

由上面的資料可知

台灣人民在抵抗氣候變遷的任務中，責無旁貸

你還是只把這部電影看完憂鬱無力一下就好嗎?

你還是只是看完以後仇恨美國人為何這樣殘骸地球而已嗎?

不要猶豫了!請一起加入環保的行列吧!!

每天多坐大眾交通工具，少開車、少騎機車

購買食物、飲料時盡量選擇台灣出產食品，以減少碳足跡

每周選擇一兩天吃素，平常也盡量少吃肉，肉類是碳排放的一大原因

隨手關閉電源、列印影印使用雙面或用單面廢紙

夏日冷氣調至26~28度即可...等

還有很多很多可以為地球做的事情

氣候變遷是真實存在並且由人類造成的問題

現在再不下定決心解決，電影的預言就會成真

請告訴你的朋友、鄰居、同事、同學

跟他們說明現在地球遭遇的狀況

大多數的人並不是不願意作

只是不知道氣候變遷後果的嚴重性，和它的的急迫程度

每個人的一點點力量，就可以造成很大的改變

阻止全球暖化，就差你一個而已

你的一切行動，都會影響地球的未來!!!

今天就去開始起而行!

星期日, 12月 27, 2009

The Tough Get Growing: How to Succeed in a Down Economy

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/733

星期三, 12月 23, 2009

Creativity, Fulfillment and Flow

It happened to be I just need to tidy up my files in my Download Folder, I found this piece of video, which is good to share. After having a look at the wikipedia site, I find it interesting in this "FLOW" theory, especially when I try to implied it into the role of workers or so called employee, including managers' experience. And yes, he does talk about work as well. Enjoy.

For those who wanna know more about optimal experience in work and leisure, article written by Csíkszentmihályi, can be reach by the link provided.

Abstract
Followed 78 adult workers for 1 week with the experience sampling method. (This method randomly samples self-reports throughout the day). The main question was whether the quality of experience was more influenced by whether a person was at work or at leisure or more influenced by whether a person was in flow (i.e., in a condition of high challenges and skills). Results showed that all the variables measuring the quality of experience, except for relaxation and motivation, are more affected by flow than by whether the respondent is working or in leisure. Moreover, the great majority of flow experiences are reported when working, not when in leisure. Regardless of the quality of experience, however, respondents are more motivated in leisure than in work. But individuals more motivated in flow than in apathy reported more positive experiences in work. Results suggest implications for improving the quality of everyday life. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2009 APA, all rights reserved)

Csíkszentmihályi suggests several ways in which a group could work together so that each individual member could achieve flow. The characteristics of such a group include:

Creative spatial arrangements: Chairs, pin walls, charts, but no tables; thus work primarily standing and moving.

Playground design: Charts for information inputs, flow graphs, project summary, craziness (here also craziness has a place), safe place (here all may say what is otherwise only thought), result wall, open topics

Parallel, organized working

Target group focus

Advancement of existing one (prototyping)

Increase in efficiency through visualization

Existence of differences among participants represents an opportunity, rather than an obstacle.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow psychology
http://www.ted.com/talks/mihaly_csikszentmihalyi_on_flow.html
http://www.psychologie.uzh.ch...pdf

星期一, 12月 21, 2009

直銷和做生意的差異

sunnysardine 說直銷和做生意的差異到底在那裡？ (Click to read full discussion)

我突然覺得其實做生意和直銷是一樣的剝削下一層消費者

所以我不應該看不起直銷囉？

難怪YN老師說：管理就是利用別人的努力去達到自己的目標的學問

難怪我會討厭這個越來越資本主義世界，其是資本主義是個稻草人，管理的哲學才是有問題的？

我一直以為管理是善用資源的學問，難怪我會學不懂！

原來善用資源是這個意思啊

在mlm-thetruth.com中有一本書，叫做"FIVE RED FLAGS"，我還在看，裡面有教大家辨別好的直銷 (Direct Selling) 和壞的老鼠會 (MLM)，想當有參考價值。對直銷存在疑問的路人或朋友或直銷成功或失敗的人，可以留言交流交流。

Download free e-book: "FIVE RED FLAGS" explains how and why MLM is flawed, fraudulent, and a losing proposition – except for founders and those at or near the top of the pyramid of participants. (44 pages, 2008 edition). Or read the summary here.

mlm-thetruth.com
5RedFlags-summary

星期日, 12月 13, 2009

The Facts About Bottled Water

Presented by Online Education. Click picture for better view.

星期六, 12月 05, 2009

電影分享會

這學期開了一個電影分享會，每一周播一部電影，觀眾群不限。

從大一在輔大心理開始，在我的生命故事中，如同村上春樹的小說經常出現的雙軸線敘事法一樣，除了課堂上心理學領域的知識學習，我想還有另一條線，一條很難被形容，卻又可清楚感覺到的引領著我通往探索生命之路的線。

以下，我大略寫一下影片的內容和之間的連貫性。

The Man From Earth