Friday, August 3, 2012
HR Fragrance: Serve Them to Retain Them
HR Fragrance: Serve Them to Retain Them: Interviewed By: Saleh Abdullah Alkhamyasi Gurubinder S Punn With the diverse options available for the consumers in the market, eac...
Sunday, July 29, 2012
Acting Crazy
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. - Albert Einstein
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push button finger. - Frank Llyod Wright
Einstine and Wright had some pretty strong thoughts about technology, thoughts that are particularly prescient since they were uttered decades before the invention of the Internet, the Smartphone and the iPad. Consider the following all too typical scenario.
The other night I went out to dinner and a movie. Dinner was at a popular local restaurant known for its chinese food and casual ambiance. As the waitress led us to our table, I couldn't help but notice how nearly every single person had a cell phone lying flat on the table right next to their dinner plate. Literally, it seemed as though most people were eating fish with a side of smartphone. As we ordered and ate, I watched diners continuously pick up the phones, tap some keys and put them back down, only to repeat the same action again and again. Younger people appeared to do this more often, but nearly everyone, young and old picked up their phone at least once during the meal. It felt like I was watching a room full of people enagaging in obsesessive compulsive behaviour.
The same scenes were witnessed at the movie theater also. When the movie ended, every single person immediately pulled out their phones, even before the credits started rolling, and scrolled through whatever it was that they had missed over the last 90 minutes. If I didn't know better I would say that many of the moviegoers were suffering from some form of attention-deficit disorder.
Where does this rapid influx of technology leave us as we cruise into the second decade of new millennium? What we are looking at is a new disorder, one that combines elements of many psychiatric maladies. Its the subject of a new book by Rosen Larry called iDisorder.
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push button finger. - Frank Llyod Wright
Einstine and Wright had some pretty strong thoughts about technology, thoughts that are particularly prescient since they were uttered decades before the invention of the Internet, the Smartphone and the iPad. Consider the following all too typical scenario.
The other night I went out to dinner and a movie. Dinner was at a popular local restaurant known for its chinese food and casual ambiance. As the waitress led us to our table, I couldn't help but notice how nearly every single person had a cell phone lying flat on the table right next to their dinner plate. Literally, it seemed as though most people were eating fish with a side of smartphone. As we ordered and ate, I watched diners continuously pick up the phones, tap some keys and put them back down, only to repeat the same action again and again. Younger people appeared to do this more often, but nearly everyone, young and old picked up their phone at least once during the meal. It felt like I was watching a room full of people enagaging in obsesessive compulsive behaviour.
The same scenes were witnessed at the movie theater also. When the movie ended, every single person immediately pulled out their phones, even before the credits started rolling, and scrolled through whatever it was that they had missed over the last 90 minutes. If I didn't know better I would say that many of the moviegoers were suffering from some form of attention-deficit disorder.
Where does this rapid influx of technology leave us as we cruise into the second decade of new millennium? What we are looking at is a new disorder, one that combines elements of many psychiatric maladies. Its the subject of a new book by Rosen Larry called iDisorder.
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Simplify, Simplify, Simplify...
Our life is frittered away by detail.... simplify, simplify!
The mass of men lead lives of quite desperation... I am convinced that to maintain oneself on this earth is not a hardship, but a pastime, if we live simply and wisely. Most of the luxuries , and many of the so called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
Do people ever do what they really wish? What they by nature intended to do, and what they were best suited for. Everywhere I see people squandering the precious substance of their lives in pursuit of material gains. Everywhere I see people feverishly piling up property and possessions, enslaving themselves at the cost of things that really count.
I am sure there is something more to life than the mere collection of treasures.
World's greatest men, wisest men, great thinkers, philosophers have lived lives of simplicity. Can we take any clue from them.
So I say what Thoreau said. Simplify your life. Don't waste the years struggling for things that are unimportant. Don't burden yourself with possessions. Keep your needs and wants simple, and enjoy what you have. Simplify, simplify. Don't fritter your life away on non-essentials. Don't destroy your peace of mind by looking back, worrying about the past.
Live in the present, enjoy the present. Simplify!
The mass of men lead lives of quite desperation... I am convinced that to maintain oneself on this earth is not a hardship, but a pastime, if we live simply and wisely. Most of the luxuries , and many of the so called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
Do people ever do what they really wish? What they by nature intended to do, and what they were best suited for. Everywhere I see people squandering the precious substance of their lives in pursuit of material gains. Everywhere I see people feverishly piling up property and possessions, enslaving themselves at the cost of things that really count.
I am sure there is something more to life than the mere collection of treasures.
World's greatest men, wisest men, great thinkers, philosophers have lived lives of simplicity. Can we take any clue from them.
Henry David Thoreau lived for few years in Walden Woods in solitude as an experiment. He then returned to Concord and wrote "Walden". He said Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in the extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two and three and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million - count a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail. In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand and one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live, if he would not founder and go to the bottom and not make his port at all, by dead reckoning, and he must be a great calculator indeed who succeeds. Simply, simplify....
So I say what Thoreau said. Simplify your life. Don't waste the years struggling for things that are unimportant. Don't burden yourself with possessions. Keep your needs and wants simple, and enjoy what you have. Simplify, simplify. Don't fritter your life away on non-essentials. Don't destroy your peace of mind by looking back, worrying about the past.
Live in the present, enjoy the present. Simplify!
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