Times: I Spy 10-01-2012

I Spy-Time
“Smart-phone parental controls are nothing to LOL about"
Featured applications
Promoting safer driving
Eliminating distraction
Tracking whereabouts
"Relaying texts and class: be downloaded more than half a million times
Discussion:
1, Which application you like most? or hate most? why?
2, Do you think it is ingenious or intrusive
3, Do your parents use any application in your phone ?

The Upside of being An Introvert (And Why Extroverts Are Overrated)

The Upside  of  being An Introvert (And Why Extroverts Are Overrated)

Free Trait Theorem
"The social value of speaking and lecturing trumps the discomfort of  his introversion can cause him."
"The idea while we have certain fixed bits of personality, we can act out of character in the service of core personal goals.
"The key is balancing three equal but very different identities."
1, Biogenic identity: Inborn personality that makes us introverted of extroverted.
2, Sociegenic identity: The expectation of our culture, family, and religion.
3, Ideogenic identity: Our personal desires and our sense of what matters

Life After High School

Life After High School
"Low SAT scores do not preclude high performance in most majors,"
"High-achieving students often get that way through dogged effort, rather than innate brilliance."
"any students admitted to university can achieve academic success, if they work hard enough."
"Hard work and the development of capacities like conscientiousness and cooperation also matter for success.-not to mention personal satisfaction and fulfillment."
"There is nothing wrong with you just because you haven't yet met people who share your interest or outlook on life."
"Unless you are doing something unhealthy or destructive, take pride in your beliefs, passions and values.  Know that you will eventually meet people who will appreciate you for being with you."
"For the rest of us, high school is one important experience among many-a lasting influence but hardly determinative. "
"The most striking result was how little they were able predict about people's adult lives from characteristics measured in adolescence.  At least 75% of the variation seen among people in middle age couldn't be foretold from what they were like in high school."
"Don't put any limits on what you think you can do."

The Optimism Bias

The Optimism Bias-we may be born with them.
"Our vision of our future is often rosier than reality"
Interesting statistics:
*10% of Americans who expect to live to 100
In reality: 0.02% live that long
*0% median assessment by surveyed U.S. marriage-license applicants of Likelihood that will divorces
*93% of people surveyed who believed they were in the top 50th percentile for driving ability

"optimists were more likely than nonoptimistic  patient to take vitamins, eat low-fat diets and exercise."
"pessimistic patient under the age of 60 were more likely to die within eight months than nonpessimistic patients of the same initial health, status and age.'
"People felt their memories were as accurate as videotape, while often they were filled with errors."
"As a result, memory also ends up being a reconstuctive process, and occasionally, details are deleted and others inserted."
"we did not anticipate losing our job, being ill or getting a divorce, but when these incidents occur, we search for the upside. These experiences mature us , we think.  They may lead to more fulfilling jobs and stable relationships in the future.  Interpreting a mis fortune in this way allows us to conclude that our sunny expectations were correct after aa- thinhs working out for the best."
"People perceived adverse events more positively if they had experienced them in the past."
"Making a decision may be a tiring, difficult ordeal, butonce you make up your mind , something miraculous happens."
"This affirmation of our decisions helps us derive heightened pleasure from choices that might be neutral. Without this our lives might well be filled with  second-guessing."
"We would find ourselves stuck, overcome by indecision and unable to move forward."
"Positive expectations enhance the odds of survival."
Awareness rarely shatters the illusion."

Wired for Distraction?

Wired for Distraction?