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festina lente

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when is/was the deadline?
should it be finished for yesterday?
how did you get/process the information about it?!
am I suppose to do all that?
why can’t I concentrate?
where is the bug?
does all these make sense? ….

No idea how was the life before the e-era, or with zero IT. Perhaps it is not my position to even wonder about that, because I know I am not 100% an ICT child, if I compare myself with the modern generations that might have access to “n” electronic devices since early stages.

 

I started playing and building my own creations with mechanics and electronics when I was around 8 years old. My atari came afterwards, and my first computer class took place when I was aprox. 12 years old (language: “BASIC”). My personal computer came later in my life, but I can’t complain, electronics have been always present in my life. Wonderful times I would say!!! Nevertheless, comparing myself with newer generations I might have started late with ICT and I can say I had experienced some e-free-era too

 

Nevertheless, ever since I remember electronics are getting: smaller in size, with bigger capacity and FASTER processing speed. Actually, it seems that electronics are in a hurry for ….. what?! . I am not so sure about the reason or purpose of such a hurry. Maybe, as IT is intimately involved with the “world’s” economy, hence no wonder if the trend of “hurry” is due to produce faster and faster and with that to win more and more and more…. I just have NO IDEA !!! But sometimes I feel immerse in a increasing twister, where the only way to survive is to understand and produce everything very quickly.

 

* Puffffff….*

 

What I think I DO have idea about is: it is nothing wrong with the impetuousness, as long as I/we remember to do not be controlled by it. “One step at the time” is a very good advice I had gotten. And this advice is complemented perfectly with the idea: “Make haste slowly”.

 

Sometimes, if I am dominated by the hurricane of the rush, either I drown myself killing any type of movement and enjoyment, or the people surround me are the ones that get suffocated stopping the motion as well. 🙁 Neither one is the main goal. BALANCE is the key point here or…

 

…. Make haste slowly, by one step at the time. One more of my mottos from now on! 🙂

do you know…

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…. that today I had been playing with my “virtual” presence. As you can see with this new template 🙂

Back in 2006, it was suggested to me to have a blog. I accept without a clue of: WHY shall I blog? less WHAT should I blog about?. But I gave it a try.

After a bit more of two years, in 2008, still I have not answered my original questions.  Then still I am finding my own way while giving it a try. However to read other person’s blogs have been useful for myself. Perhaps when I get to know what am I doing, I will be able to solve also the other questions related to this blog.

learning is not easy

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this one is not a theoretical post, I am practicing. In other words: I am trying to learn something and I wonder if it is possible to learn something without pain?

I know the attitude of the learner has a relevant role on how each person deals with the learning process. This process implies to fall several times, to face frustration, to invest a lot of time and effort before see any tiny result. But is this painful process needed always?

Perhaps it is personality, because for example for me to be open to discover something or to listen new perspectives and try to understand them is enjoyable. Even if it implies effort to discover all that process, but I cannot compare that effort with the effort that implies to build a new habit or create a new skill. One is pleasure in a short term while the other is pain with hope of pleasure in a long run.

It gets worse if I have to unlearn and re-learn again. Yeap, what am I doing? This “life long learning” is not that easy.

Perhaps that is why persistence should be a good ally of learning, however at moments that persistence sounds more to masochism.

Oh well! I will keep on this….

multilingual

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It is a fact that independently of language, I am bad on writing. Perhaps I need to talk with a cognitive psychologist or a linguistic to understand my own case. My personal assumption is: my way of thinking is chaotic, and it does not present the conventional structures for clear expression.  Anyway, I am working on developing the proper writing communication skills so relevant for academia (and so painful to acquiere).

However this post is not about that, it’s purpose is mainly to test a multilingual blog . Yeap, for our ongoing projects with Lieksa and Helsinki, we (Mikko, Teemu and I)  need a multilingual blog. Then I am experimenting about that with my own blog. Nice!

Actually the conference of CATaC, which was bilingual, gave me food for the though in relationship to languages in academic contexts. Yeap, how important is to be open to other languages, in order to understand different ways of analysis, argumentation and philosophies. Not everything can be translated. A correct attitude towards this topic is not only interesting, but also relevant for a richer picture of any phenomena. No easy, challenging, but also rich 🙂 

 Anyway, more soon!

 PS. If you want to try yourself to make a multilingual wordpress site, here is a good guide for it. 

Other languages:

Español

Deutsch

Suomi

 

to be critic

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I am realizing that one of the main skills into research is one of the main skills that anyone should have in their own life: to be critic. However it is a really difficult skill to develop.

Understanding by critic a person who offers REASONED judgment or analysis or interpretation or observation about anything I would say. His or her arguments can be in favor or against the arguments of someone else. It is valid that each person has an opinion, and I find as an art how to get in agreements. It should be notice that I refer to constructive criticism in this post, not to excessive criticism which actually excess of critic it is rather unconstructive and harmful, as any other type of excess.

For me it is fascinating to discover how to make use of the gray mass that is located inside of our skull in a constructive way. Each person is full of surprises. In my perception, in order to be critic is necessary to make use of so many skills and activities. And it is not simple to learn to be critic and to develop that faculty. It needs constant learning and unlearning combined with personal reflection, it is a constant process.

As a passional and a dreamer type of personality as I am, I had been having a BIG trouble in learning to be critic myself, it is not easy at all for me. Nevertheless as my awareness of this human faulty arises, I wonder:  how is it possible to promote more the use of the reason?.  Why schools or education systems in general does not put more emphasis in develop criticism  or develop the imagination (imagination will be another post in my blog a REALLY important one!!!). At moments I have the impression that most of the “formal” education in several parts of our globe is mainly concern in:  memorize facts and information that will support some basic skills creation. But are they /we interesting to teach to be critic?  I have my doubts about it.

To THINK is not simple!