To show my agreement with latest two points under this heading, an extract from a lecture I listened to recently: try to accept and be fully conscious of what a situation is about as opposed to react spontaneously, immediate and pre-programmed. This will allow you to retain a sense of dignity as also keep certain control [over the situation].
Kristina
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From: "Michael Schmidt (mschmidt)" <[log in to unmask]>
Sender: PhD-Design - This list is for discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:06:16
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Subject: Re: Living on Different Planets: WAS: Any room for failure at the top? WAS: plenty of room at the top?
As an occasional contributor and regular reader on this list, I want to
convey how important I think the ideas and experiences shared here are to
our many different fields of design research, teaching‹and dare I
say‹practice. I especially appreciate how helpful many members of this
list are to students and newcomers. On that note, I wish the experts on
this list would be as considerate of each other as they are of student
researchers. Many of us work in academia. If you're like me, you've worked
in academia to one extent or another most of your adult life. After 17
years of faculty meetings and all the sniping, irritability, and outright
arguing I've witnessed, I'm sick of it. If I want to follow a gripe
session, all I have to do is read the emails coming from my home
department. Additionally, folks, who has the time? So I suggest, cut out
the personal BS. Nobody cares who's winning or losing an argument except
the participants, in which case take your argument off list. Jesus, the
world is going to hell in a hand basket. Don't y'all have anything better
to do with your time than piss each other off?
Mike
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Michael Schmidt, Director
Center for Multimedia Arts
The University of Memphis
FedEx Institute of Technology Bldg
365 Innovation Dr, Ste 335
Phone/fax: 901-678-1777
On 1/26/12 8:49 AM, "Ranulph Glanville" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Every time I find myself referring to my status, authority, expertise,
>experience or any other such, I know I am losing the argument. Referring
>to myself in this way means, I have found, that I don't have an argument
>that stands up by itslef. I think of myself, under those circumstances,
>as bullying.
>
>Ranulph
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