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Life often feels so off Unplanned as a cough But the structure fits the stream The nightmare and the dream For years these questions gathered You''ve heard them And we''ve blathered So here is one approach Another attempt to coach Enjoy this contemplative curse

This novel tells of Cameron Simmons'' journey from the delivery room through the precipices of life and relationship, metaphorically with a tortoise in his hair, which makes for slow arrival educationally, socially, spiritually, and creatively.By college, realization that there''s something in his life, wrapped in a few seconds, that determines life''s course. "Something" becomes synchronistic, haunting, spellbinding, and inexplicable. Cameron travels through careers in pharmacy, eyewear sales to novelist, journalist, broadcaster, professor, and podcaster; all orchestrated by a unique angelic intervention presented with graphically stark evidence.His journey is replete with humor, sadness, realities, exigencies, and a special love of a university. Cameron is built to love, be loved and perhaps role modeled. His passion for tolerance, racial justice, diversity, equity, living to 150, climate awareness, and film noir is executed under special eyes of his mother, wife, son, and a "gang" of chosen spirits.At novel''s end, Cameron confronts a first wife and a life journey at yet another precipice while listening to "Scarborough Fair" on headphones which transmit sounds through the bones of his ear.

Por que trabajamos? La pregunta parece muy simple, pero la respuesta es compleja. Nos han ensenado que la razon por la cual trabajamos es primordialmente por la paga a fin de mes, y la sociedad se ha estructurado conforme a esa creencia. Sin embargo algo no encaja por que hay gente tan infeliz a pesar de cobrar bien? O por que hay gente tan feliz con su trabajo a pesar de cobrar relativamente poco. Despues de analizar el tema, Schwartz prueba que la razon por la cual trabajamos solo puedes ser incentivada en raras ocasiones y que la razon por la cual se trabaja mal es justamente por intentar incentivarlo. Este libro es un primer intento para ayudar a todos a encontrar un gran trabajo.

We conducted an analysis of the 13-item Maximization Scale (Schwartz et al., 2002) with the goal of establishing its factor structure, reliability and validity. We also investigated the psychometric properties of several proposed refined versions of the scale. Four sets of analyses are reported. The first analysis confirms the 3-part factor structure of the scale and assesses its reliability. The second analysis identifies those items that do not perform well on the basis of internal, external, and judgmental criteria, and develops three shorter versions of the scale. In the third analysis, the three refined versions of the scale are cross-validated to confirm dimensionality, reliability, and validity. The fourth analysis uses an experiment in an investment decision making context to assess the reliability and nomological validity of the refined scales. These analyses lead us to conclude that a shorter, 6-item Maximization Scale performs best and should be used by future researchers. It is hoped that clarification of the conceptual underpinnings of the maximization construct and development of a refined scale will enhance its use among researchers across several of the social science disciplines.

In the process of admissions to selective colleges and universities, both the institutions and the applicants are trying to maximize. Applicants want to get into the “best” college and colleges want the “best” applicants. This paper argues that in this context, as in many others, maximizing is a fool''s errand, partly because no one knows what the best college (or student) is, and partly because differences among applicants are smaller than the error in the instruments used to assess them. Moreover, it is a fool''s errand with grave consequences, since it puts enormous pressure on students throughout their pre-college education and induces them to do what will impress rather than what they are actually passionate about. I propose, instead, a system in which all applicants who cross an acceptability threshold are entered into a lottery, with the winners (admitted students) chosen at random from that pool. Such a system might produce better, more engaged college students because they will be freer to pursue their passions and develop their intellects in high school. It might also teach students about the role of luck in many of life''s outcomes, making them more empathic when they encounter people who may be just as deserving as they are, but less lucky. Finally, I suggest that maximizing in general may be a fool''s errand, and that satisficing may produce better decisions, and greater satisfaction.

Non ce n''est pas que pour la fiche de paie ! On peut tout à fait être malheureux avec un salaire de ministre ou tirer de profondes gratifications d''une profession sous-estimée ou sous-payée. Des hôpitaux aux salons de coiffure, des chaînes de montage automobile aux conseils d''administrations, une enquête passionnante sur les secrets du bonheur au travail

本书是一本旨在指导企事业单位员工如何端正工作态度的图书.共分五章,分别为:工作动力的来源,带着使命感工作,赋予工作额外的价值,创造需求还是迎合需求,不忘初心.

Beschouwing over het psychologische probleem van het teveel aan keuzemogelijkheden voor de moderne mens, zowel bij de aanschaf van consumptiegoederen als bij de beantwoording van levensvragen en de inrichting van het eigen leven.

Essay over de invloed die ideeën, zowel juiste als onjuiste, uitoefenen op het menselijk gedrag.