Carol H Tucker Passionate about knowledge management and organizational development, expert in loan servicing, virtual world denizen and community facilitator, and a DISNEY fan
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beladona Memorial Be warned:in this very rich environment where you can immerse yourself so completely, your emotions will become engaged -- and not everyone is cognizant of that. Among the many excellent features of SL, there is no auto-return on hearts, so be wary of where your's wanders...
Sometime ago I wrote about Grandmom Hughes' saying [one that I often quote], that "tomorrow is promised to no one" and how I still gave her credit for the quote even though someone more famous gets the cite. I know for a fact that she never ever heard of that person, or read him, and that it was a personal conclusion.
Recently I read a cite that took one of my favorite sayings, "the opposite of love is not hate, it is indifference", and expanded it. Here is the full quote courtesy of Searaven Raymaker: "The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference." Elie Wiesel is the official author -- someone that I have never heard of and had to GOOGLE to find out who they were -- sounds like a bit of an attitude there, doesn't it? Sorry, I still think that conclusion belongs to me -- and it was dearly won, wrung from a lot of personal angst on how to deal with divorce and loss. I have to admit though, sometimes indifference is really hard to acheive and I wonder if it is necessary in order to move on.
But what took the cake was reading in a series of posts online about the Dunner-Kruger effect . We all know and deal with people who think they know more than they actually know everyday and as a result there are all kinds of sayings about a little bit of knowledge being a dangerous thing. So around the turn of the century [isn't that a fun phrase? just made you feel incredibly old, didn't I?], it was actually researched and labeled! So the next time that coworker is blathering on and on about a portion of your job and they have no clue, you can just nod wisely and murmur something about the Dunner-Kruger effect and wander off throwing your scarf over your shoulder a la Dr. Who
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