Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Saturday, November 27, 2010
cuppa: salam! phewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww so glad to be back! ^_...
phewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww so glad to be back! ^_...: "salam! phewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww so glad to be back! ^________^ november coming to an end. december! december! becember! becember! cucumber! ..."
Friday, November 26, 2010
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Monday, November 22, 2010
seriously, stop being so pussy and start being thankful. so shallow you know about world consumerism and stuff.
saving space is one thing,
doing and refurnishing is another.
but simply to dispose because 'we dont feel like it' that's... i lost word . have the word 'saving' had been brought up to the sky disappearing from the dictionary?!
no, it's still in mine.
then again, it's mine.
long sigh. shaking head . unwill. there i've said it!
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Friday, November 19, 2010

Thursday, November 18, 2010
on Procrastination
Procrastination
The now you may see the costs and rewards at stake when it comes time to choose studying for the test instead of going to the club, eating the salad instead of the cupcake, writing the article instead of playing the video game.
The trick is to accept the now you will not be the person facing those choices, it will be the future you – a person who can’t be trusted. Future-you will give in, and then you’ll go back to being now-you and feel weak and ashamed. Now-you must trick future-you into doing what is right for both parties.
Some psychologists call this self-binding:
Working with the psychologists Frank Keil, of Yale University, and Katherine Choe, now at Goucher College, I recently studied young children’s understanding of self-binding, by showing them short movies of people engaged in self-binding and other behaviors and asking them to explain what was going on. The children, aged 4 to 7, easily grasped that someone might put a video game on a high shelf so that another person couldn’t get it. But self-binding confused them: they were mystified when people put away the game so that they themselves couldn’t get hold of it.
But even though young children don’t understand self-binding, they are capable of doing it. In a classic study from the 1970s, psychologists offered children a marshmallow and told them they could either have it right away, or get more if they waited for a few minutes. As you would expect, waiting proved difficult (and performance on this task is a good predictor, much later on, of such things as SAT scores and drug problems), but some children managed it by self-binding—averting their eyes or covering the marshmallow so as to subvert their temptation-prone self for the greater pleasure of the long-term self.
This embodies a philosophical problem that’s also of immense practical importance: short-term irrationality in service of long-term rationality. Say you’re depressed. Unless you have some modicum of faith that things will get better, at least enough that you’re motivated to do something about it — whether that’s exercise, a psychologist, medication, a new job, or something else — you’re unlikely to get better. Belief that things will get better is irrational: nothing about the past or present indicates it. But at the same time, this belief may be the only thing that can cause things to actually get better; so irrational belief is the rational thing, from a long-term perspective. This is philosophically troubling — foundation of rationality, etc. — but more than that, it’s practical. There are so many situations in everyday life where we need to employ short-term irrationality for long-term gain. Doing things that seem absurd, such as purposely giving ourselves less time to complete a task, can ensure that we actually spend more time on it:
[A 2002 study by Klaus Wertenbroch and Dan Arielly] set up three classes, and each had three weeks to finish three papers. Class A had to turn in all three papers on the last day of class, Class B had to pick three different deadlines and stick to them, and Class C had to turn in one paper a week.
Which class had the better grades?
Class C, the one with three specific deadlines, did the best. Class B, which had to pick deadlines ahead of time but had complete freedom, did the second best, and the group whose only deadline was the last day, Class A, did the worst.
Students who could pick any three deadlines tended to spread them out at about one week apart on their own. They knew they would procrastinate, so they set up zones in which they would be forced to perform. Still, overly optimistic outliers who either waited until the last minute or chose unrealistic goals pulled down the overall class grade.
Students with no guidelines at all tended to put off their work until the last week for all three papers.
We humans are irrational beings. As such, long-term rationality often requires us to bind our future selves through short-term irrationality.
(This post written instead of more important things, naturally. Future me will get to them.)
http://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/10/27/procrastination/
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ты есть на аск.фм? хотела тебя добавить, но не нашла... или формспринг тебе больше нравится?
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Monday, November 8, 2010


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Extraversion
Some people like lots of stimulation; they want people around them, activity and excitement, whilst others prefer to be able to focus on things in a calm and quiet environment. Most people prefer a blend of the two extremes although your answers suggest you have a preference for the livelier situations. This may help you if you work in busy, hectic and very sociable settings but you may get bored and even frustrated when things are too quiet.
and this
Agreeableness
Most people want to be able to get on with others but to some it is the most important thing in the world, whilst others are quite happy to upset someone else if it means that things get done.
Your answers suggest that you can be firm with people when you need to be but that getting on with others is still important to you. Like most people you would rather avoid conflict but are not prepared to put up with being treated badly by others.
and this
Openness
While some people like experimenting with new things and ideas, others prefer traditional methods and taking a very practical approach to problems.
Your answers suggest that you may more interested in the creative, new and experimental aspects of situations than dealing with the routine practicalities. While your dreams and plans may not always be achievable, you are likely to be very open to new ideas and ways of doing things.
and much more. but that should have prove my point. so yeay, emergency department is winning by 2 miles (yea, ER is on the lead after ENT incident )
i wanted to write about something else, but i totally forgot. neurosis?
p/s: why is the word 'Copenhagen' keeps popping in my head like popcorn lately?
Tuesday, November 2, 2010








