Keep Technology from Taking Over Your Life

Priorities: mindfulness, meaning, and wisdom

1. Make deliberate choices about how much time you spend reacting to communication from people instead of pursuing your interests.


2. Box out time to put technology away; plan for specific times when you won’t engage with technology in any way.


3. Remember: the most precious thing you can give someone is your presence is your undivided attention without allowing your cell phone or other devices to interfere.


4. Be mindful of your reasons for connecting to technology. What is your purpose?


5. Get the most important things done and let go of the rest.


6. Build some downtime into your schedule.











Source:

7 Tips to Keep Technology from Taking Over Your Life (from Wisdom 2.0) | Tiny Buddha: Wisdom Quotes, Letting Go, Letting Happiness In

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New Research mentioned in preceding article below...

Cornell University Library

Computer Science - Computers and Society

 http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.4809

Big-Five Personality Prediction Based on User Behaviors at Social Network Sites

Shuotian Bai, Tingshao Zhu, Li Cheng

(Submitted on 21 Apr 2012)

Many customer services are already available at Social Network Sites (SNSs), including user recommendation and media interaction, to name a few. There are strong desires to provide online users more dedicated and personalized services that fit into individual's need, usually strongly depending on the inner personalities of the user. However, little has been done to conduct proper psychological analysis, crucial for explaining the user's outer behaviors from their inner personality. In this paper, we propose an approach that intends to facilitate this line of research by directly predicting the so called Big-Five Personality from user's SNS behaviors. Comparing to the conventional inventory-based psychological analysis, we demonstrate via experimental studies that users' personalities can be predicted with reasonable precision based on their online behaviors. Except for proving some former behavior-personality correlation results, our experiments show that extraversion is positively related to one's status republishing proportion and neuroticism is positively related to the proportion of one's angry blogs (blogs making people angry).

Comments:	7 pages, predicting user's Big-five personality based on Social Network behaviors
Subjects:	Computers and Society (cs.CY)
Cite as:	arXiv:1204.4809v1 [cs.CY]

Submission history

From: Tingshao Zhu [view email]
[v1] Sat, 21 Apr 2012 12:47:45 GMT (567kb)

Which authors of this paper are endorsers?

 

 

 

Personality Tests Superceded by Facebook???

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, based on the work of Jung is the system I intend to explore on this blog.

Forget Myers-Briggs: all you need is Facebook | Internet Psychologist | Graham Jones

Forget Personality Tests: all you need is Facebook

25th April 2012 
 

Personality tests are an everyday part of the recruitment world.

Massive consultancy firms exist crammed with psychologists to analyze the data and help companies ensure that they employ the best possible mix of personalities. 

It turns out that just checking someone’s Facebook stream of activity is a reliable indicator of their personality type, as assessed by a theory known as “the Big Five”. 

The Big Five personality indicators are: agreeableness, conscientiousness, extroversion, neuroticism and openness. 

There are other methods of assessing personality, such as the popular

 Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, based on the work of Jung, but the “Big Five” indicators are nowadays generally accepted as the basis of personality.

New research has shown that a Facebook stream is a reliable method of indicating personality based on the Big Five theory. 

If someone’s Facebook timeline includes lots of “smilies” for instance, it shows that they have high levels of extroversion and people who post frequent status updates have high levels of openness.

Conscientiousness is reflected in lots of questions and neuroticism is shown by the rate of negative comments an individual posts.

The researchers discovered that simple checks of Facebook profiles are accurate indications of personality types as assessed by sophisticated questionnaires.

It all suggests that those personality tests use by human resources specialists may well be a thing of the past for many companies.

If you want to know what kind of person you are employing, all you need to do is check out their Facebook profile.

Many companies already do that when recruiting new staff, but largely as a “back-up” to the expensive psychological tests that they have used.

Now, there is evidence which suggests that checking Facebook alone is as good as those expensive occupational psychology profiles.

Categories: Internet Psychology
Tags: facebook, openness, personality, psychology, recruitment

 

About Graham Jones

Graham Jones is an Internet Psychologist who studies the way people use the online world, in particular how people engage with businesses. He uses this knowledge to help companies improve their online connections to their customers and potential customers and offers consultancy, workshops, masterclasses and webinars. He also speaks regularly at conferences and business events. Graham is an award-winning writer and the author of more than 30 books, several of which are about various aspects of the Internet. For more information connect with me on Google+

Henry Miller Work Routine

Henry Miller's 11 Commandments

In the early-1930s, as he wrote what would become his first published novel — the hugely influential Tropic of Cancer — Henry Miller wrote a list of 11 commandments, to be followed by himself.

The list read as follows.

(Source: Henry Miller on Writing Image: Henry Miller, c.1950, courtesy of Answers.)

COMMANDMENTS

1. Work on one thing at a time until finished.
2. Start no more new books, add no more new material to "Black Spring."
3. Don't be nervous. Work calmly, joyously, recklessly on whatever is in hand.
4. Work according to Program and not according to mood. Stop at the appointed time!
5. When you can't create you can work.
6. Cement a little every day, rather than add new fertilizers.
7. Keep human! See people, go places, drink if you feel like it.
8. Don't be a draught-horse! Work with pleasure only.
9. Discard the Program when you feel like it—but go back to it next day. Concentrate. Narrow down. Exclude.
10. Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing.
11. Write first and always. Painting, music, friends, cinema, all these come afterwards.

Jaguar Running Animation

Worthwhile Purpose

 Know what it is you want, set some goals to create the circumstances you desire and take action now. Don't wait around for the perfect time to get started.  There is power in action so start your journey to success.

"People with goals succeed because they know
where they are going. It's as simple as that."
- Earl Nightingale

Success or failure as a human being is not a matter of luck, circumstances, fate, or any of the other tiresome old clichés.  Those are only excuses.

The power to achieve the life of your dreams is in your hands—and the first step toward activating it is identifying the specific goals that will make your dreams real. 

After all, it’s much easier to get what you want out of life when you know where you’re going.

A mission statement is only a paragraph long, but it has specific, measurable outcomes and a deadline for accomplishing that outcome. It’s truly the best way to start your journey to success.

“You cannot change your destination overnight, 

but you can change your direction overnight.”

--Jim Rohn

Creating a mission statement will help you change your direction. In just five minutes from now, you will have made the shift from an ordinary existence to an extraordinary existence.

Success is the progressive realization of a worthwhile Ideal.

Eternal Spring

Step by step
a new-born lamb
eternal spring 

Zen Master Soen Nakagawa

1955

In his "Preface" to Endless Vow: The Zen Path of Soen Nakagawa (presented with an Introduction by Eido Tai Shimano, Shambhala 1996) Kazuaki Tanahashi writes: "Zen Master Soen Nakagawa was a key figure in the transmission of Zen Buddhism from Japan to the Western world. As abbot of the historic Ryutaku Monastery, he trained monks and lay practitioners. Among them were Robert Aitken and Philip Kapleau, who later became two of the first Westerners to teach Zen in the United States . . . Soen Nakagawa was also an extraordinary poet. In Japan his haiku are renowned, even though no substantial collection of his work has been made available to the general public."

Attitude Adjustment

If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.

 - Mary Engelbreit

Filosofizing Frank

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Frank_Sinatra

The Way You Wear Your Hat (1997)

The Way You Wear Your Hat : Frank Sinatra and the Lost Art of Livin' (1997) by Bill Zehme

• I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.

• For years I've nursed a secret desire to spend the Fourth of July in a double hammock with a swingin' redheaded broad ... but I could never find me a double hammock.

• Fear is the enemy of logic.

• The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.

• [On religion] I'm for anything that gets you through the night, be it prayer, benzedrine or a bottle of Jack Daniel's.

Living Simply

1. Accurate Self Knowledge
2. Purging the Unnecessary
3. The Willingness to Say “No”
4. A Focus on Conscious Consumption
5. Cultivating Patience
6. Mindfulness
7. A Desire for Less

Python Love

Photos of the Day 02/14 - The Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com

Erroll Escobar kisses his partner Princess Madrolejo as they pose for photographers while carrying a 16-foot and 200 kg Albino Burmese Python during a Valentine's Day presentation inside a Malabon zoo, north of Manila.
A survey conducted by Social Weather Stations (SWS) from December 3 to December 7 last year shows that only three out of 10 Filipinos would change their religion in the name of love. The SWS noted that the unwillingness to change their religion for their loved ones is strong in all religions, a local media reported.