http://blog.iansheh.com/2005/10/uber-what-3/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=uber-what-3 the ellipsis of creativity... Thu, 12 Jan 2012 22:26:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 http://blog.iansheh.com/2005/10/uber-what-3/comment-page-1/#comment-383 shehstar Mon, 17 Oct 2005 17:10:58 +0000 http://iansheh.com/blog/?p=252#comment-383 i was wondering when someone was going to pull out the Blink references. i must say that was a very interesting book to read. it really opens your eyes to how even the smallest events or observation can shift our opinions or judgements. i definately recomend the book. it\'s a quick read and very interesting. Blink by Melcome Gladwell. i was wondering when someone was going to pull out the Blink references. i must say that was a very interesting book to read. it really opens your eyes to how even the smallest events or observation can shift our opinions or judgements. i definately recomend the book. it\'s a quick read and very interesting. Blink by Melcome Gladwell.

]]> http://blog.iansheh.com/2005/10/uber-what-3/comment-page-1/#comment-382 steve-o Sun, 16 Oct 2005 14:36:09 +0000 http://iansheh.com/blog/?p=252#comment-382 I find it strange too Ian, that we have this obsession with classifying people. You see it in every aspect of life, from cool to not cool, athletic to not atheltic, captain of the team, assistants and the lot. And I wonder why it is so necessary to label people, and by doing that, how do we limit them? I was on the train the other day from dartford to Kidbrooke, all places you will soon be familiar with. I was thinking about my day. I spent the day at the mall, and looking back, can very easily see that I was classifying people too by the clothes they wore, the food they ate, they way they looked. I didn't pay any attention to it, but I know that it changed the way that I either did or would have interacted with them. oddly enough, that is a major point of the book "Blink". it's the things that occur in our unconscious that shape our conscious, sometimes without our being aware. One of the points of the book was that a simple meeting such as an interview can be tainted because of the way we view a certain "type" of person. it may not be done intentionally, but a shift in attitude, posture, openness to discussion, can easily change the shape of a social meeting. Go to this website (www.implicit.harvard.edu). it was in the book and they have a bunch of tests to test your unconscious views of different types of people. They are easy, and will surprise you a bit I think. But it's true that when you give someone a label, automatically you are expecting them to act in a manner associated with that label, and anything that strays from that is almost weird or "unlike them". They will often conform their actions to suit that label because that is how they are expected to act. But by labelling someone, we miss all of the extras that come from being free of that. Wow, what a rant. And this is all on a sunday afternoon. I should be napping. peace. I find it strange too Ian, that we have this obsession with classifying people. You see it in every aspect of life, from cool to not cool, athletic to not atheltic, captain of the team, assistants and the lot. And I wonder why it is so necessary to label people, and by doing that, how do we limit them? I was on the train the other day from dartford to Kidbrooke, all places you will soon be familiar with. I was thinking about my day. I spent the day at the mall, and looking back, can very easily see that I was classifying people too by the clothes they wore, the food they ate, they way they looked. I didn't pay any attention to it, but I know that it changed the way that I either did or would have interacted with them. oddly enough, that is a major point of the book "Blink". it's the things that occur in our unconscious that shape our conscious, sometimes without our being aware. One of the points of the book was that a simple meeting such as an interview can be tainted because of the way we view a certain "type" of person. it may not be done intentionally, but a shift in attitude, posture, openness to discussion, can easily change the shape of a social meeting. Go to this website (www.implicit.harvard.edu). it was in the book and they have a bunch of tests to test your unconscious views of different types of people. They are easy, and will surprise you a bit I think. But it's true that when you give someone a label, automatically you are expecting them to act in a manner associated with that label, and anything that strays from that is almost weird or "unlike them". They will often conform their actions to suit that label because that is how they are expected to act. But by labelling someone, we miss all of the extras that come from being free of that. Wow, what a rant. And this is all on a sunday afternoon. I should be napping. peace.

]]> http://blog.iansheh.com/2005/10/uber-what-3/comment-page-1/#comment-381 glenroy Sat, 15 Oct 2005 01:24:35 +0000 http://iansheh.com/blog/?p=252#comment-381 you\'re shehstarsexual... no... UBERsheshstarsexual... you\'re shehstarsexual… no… UBERsheshstarsexual…

]]> http://blog.iansheh.com/2005/10/uber-what-3/comment-page-1/#comment-380 steve-o Fri, 14 Oct 2005 20:21:05 +0000 http://iansheh.com/blog/?p=252#comment-380 i just call you chinese i just call you chinese

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