Delicious LiveJournal Links for 11-27-2009

[andrewducker]

• Awesome By Proxy: Addicted to Fake Achievement
  (tags: psychology games motivation gaming performance goals)
• How to Deal with a Drama Queen
  (tags: happiness psychology relationships drana)
• How to start reading comics - 20 introductory volumes
  (tags: comics reference toread)
• Jack Kirby's Inglourious Basterds comic book adaptation
  (tags: comics tarantino kirby)
• The Unwritten Rules of Generational Poverty
  (tags: poverty society)
• Microsoft's Windows 7 Family Guy clips revealed
  (tags: Windows microsoft familyguy)

Comments

[likeneontubing.livejournal.com]

some of those were great! loved the fake achievement, drama queen and especially the poverty one :)

[dapperscavenger.livejournal.com]

Fake acheivement - I've known about that since, I dunno, forever. I never stick at anything for more than about a year. Once it gets hard, I move on. I don't like having to work hard. That's human nature. This explains why I can't play a musical instrument, for example. I know I could, if I could be bothered, but I can't.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

> In childhood, it is remarkably easy to instill one orientation or the other. It all comes down to the type of praise you receive. If you perform well on a task and are told, "Wow, you must be smart!" it teaches you to value your skill, and thus fosters a performance orientation. But if instead you are told, "Wow, you must have worked hard!" it teaches you to value your effort and thus fosters a mastery orientation.

Well that's me screwed. And a whole bunch of us who were fed the no effort lines as kids.

[andrewducker]

yup, me too :->

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

On the plus side, I don't really like RPGs. But I've been totally addicted to Civ in various incarnations -- and I'm not sure which mode that works on.

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

The performance vs. mastery thing is good, but it needs a little refinement.

"Working hard" isn't the only relevant virtue. Sometimes you need to think about what you're doing. Working hard without having context is how a tremendous number of people get joint injuries from exercise.

[cairmen.livejournal.com]

Tim Ferriss is a controversial guy, but he says a lot of useful stuff.

One of the things he says is "It doesn't matter how hard you're working nearly as much as if you're working on the right stuff." (I paraphrase).

Work ethic can really screw you up too. It's very easy to fall into working hard without thinking about whether what you're working on is the best thing to do.