Tag: culture
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Link: How Culture Affects Depression
“[B]y virtue of prioritizing emotions and personal happiness, in contexts like the U.S., we are creating a discrepancy between how we feel and how we are supposed to feel… In western societies, we don’t see enough adaptive strategies like reappraisal: learning to tell yourself a different story that would eventually lead to different emotions.” Link…
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We are afflicted with the same disease. It’s hard (impossible?) to find a day job that is consuming so we look for other stuff to fill that void, which of course just makes us insane As one of my friends put it. Indeed!
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What they will not do is maintain steady eye contact or smile. If a stranger of the opposite sex smiles at you, it’s best to do as the French do and return only a blank look before turning away. If you smile back, you might find yourself in a Pepé Le Pew–type situation. http://www.fodors.com/news/story_3925.html
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\”Hell is other people,\” but don’t let that stop you
> Lot and lots of discussion about culture and culture change. This discussion has been going on since forever, and if we are being frank with ourselves, it isn’t going to change dramatically soon. > > So what to do? Don’t lets make the culture change discussion stop us from doing things. Have a go,…
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F. Scott Fitzgerald once said, “Yeah, this should definitely be in 3D.” No, what he said was, “[T]he test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.” That’s what you have to do: you have to be…
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The third stage of Vineet’s transformation revolves around the value zone – the part of any business where true customer value is created. In a services organisation like HCL was this in HR? Was this in the financial modelling team? Was this in the manager’s office? No, for HCL the true customer value was created…
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Breakdancing at the food-court
Contemporary American culture venerates the entrepreneurs who create the new corporate commons in which we now spend most of our work and leisure time—the mall inside our screens. –There’s a Zucker born every minute I haven’t read the rest yet, but that part sure is fun.
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Suck: Daily You know, Americans are a pretty kooky lot around alcohol. America has the highest percentage of abstainers of any western country. There are microscopic numbers of people who abstain in France or Italy. But close to 40 percent of Americans don’t drink alcohol at all. And they tend to accumulate in the Protestant…
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