'Networking' Articles
Networking is a popular technology term these days, but I refer to the usage used more in business today. The power of networking. We all do it, not just executives and politicians. Unfortunately, our networking is based on ideas we form and then we refuse to allow them to change. Embrace the self constructs that you do have, but know them for what they are. By doing so you can transcend them.
“We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” Martin Luther King, Jr.
How we Network
We network naturally. It isn’t something just corporate executives and politicians do. We often don’t even realize we are. We form pictures of people in our head. This is natural and not necessarily wrong, though it can be a stumbling block more than a stepping stone. You can choose to see the construct of the person as something you can actively use and permit to evolve. That is really the first issue. People form an idea, which isn’t wrong, but they refuse to let it change. The idea of other people in our heads is artificial. We make it. So… Seek More
Networking Reality
A big part of why empathy suffers in today’s society is that they think they see the other’s view. But they put themselves into their own construct. That isn’t empathy. It’s actually pretty depersonalizing. They cannot even see themselves, feel for themselves. This is why they don’t see what they do. They don’t claim the interface with that other that they created, let alone take responsibility for it. It is something some children are born with and others seem to never understand. Yet, it also can be learned. The children born with it are often also very imaginative and have… Seek More
Networking in Society
This society was based on the “muscle” part of society, not the sensitive ones. But we aren’t at the whim of nature any more, so natural tendencies tend to get warped. What made perfect sense to nature becomes a drawback in “technological” society. Standards of behaviour are based on assumptions that preclude what comes naturally for some of us, but we are human and we are the intellectual equals of others. The tendency can be repurposed. Made to serve even in this context. Human nature is changing and it is making the “throwback” features stand out more. We are all… Seek More
Role Playing
One of the appeals of fantasy role playing even in the way it started which was Dungeons & Dragons, was that the characters from mythology (the heroes) are ultimately us and represent all the types. Those types still exist, just not in the same context. The roles they chose to make classes in the original game were based on real roles people assume. Add more imagination to it, and you free people. Do you think young people today are discovering themselves better with the involvement in games like World of Warcraft (WoW)? Yes I do. There is even a case… Seek More
