Secondly, there's the 'i want what i can't have' line of thinking. First and foremost there's someone's stamp of approval that they're worth dealing with. Lots of people will agree that people become attractive when they're taken. What i'm talking about is the heroism of a faithful man. But there is a white stripe down the back of that skunk that goes counter, but not many people have been analyzing and talking about. And whatever man conquers the most women 'wins'. So in "the game" of dating, there is an underlying ethic of man conquers woman. Now, geeks, with economic power are starting to get play - my analysis anyway. That's why the bad-boys get the hot chicks, they've got social power. Her analysis was that the fundamental exchange between man and woman is power for beauty. A few years ago i read a tome of a book called "The Kaballah of the Soul" by leonora leet and was struck by one of her analyses (analysis plural, the blog won't say it's spelled right). I'm head-over heels into a relationship and coming down the final stretch of my singlehood and i was thinking about the whole 'dating world' and 'courting world' (which are vastly different arenas). I was thinking about dating the other day. I don't know what the rest of the book is about, but i'm waiting to get to the chapter about metaphors, because Pinker takes to task one of my other favorite authors George Lakoff, who is the 'metaphor man' in the world of linguistics, and more recently in the world of political spin. The difference between 'hit', 'cut' and 'break' are that they do or don't include more elementary concepts like motion, contact, effects etc. Not only do i find him to be an entertaining writer, i like the subject: words (did i mention that for like four months of my life i would go to bed late reading the thesaurus?)īasically our thoughts are comprised of basic ideas, and words reflect combinations of these ideas.
As a linguist, he is looking at language to tell us about how the mind works and operates. The premise of his book is that we can see into the functioning of the human mind through language. but there's the guy that wrote the book! The Stuff of Though by Steve Pinker. I was about to say that i'm the only person who would read a chapter of a book discussing the ins-and-outs of the difference between the words cut, hit and break. I'll be there if i can get my big ego out of the way. Apparently at national conferences, some of the best trainers get to 'walk the stage' but they've gotta be top notched. So, i'm going to eat crow and sharpen up on my P's and Q's to become a better trainer. Now, this is against the background of people walking out and telling me that this was a great class, and one student/client comparing me to one of the recent legendary trainers at my compay. So, i walk around like i'm the hottest thing since sliced bread, and i'm not! My scores are good, but i've been doing this for less than a year (my 'anniversary' is the 2nd of january) and my scores are in the 8.36 range ('effective is 8.47). i should've seen that, he's been doing this for about 10 years, he's just new to this company.
Out of about ten evaluations that i went through (under his watchful eye) all of them except one rated him with all nines! The other one was straight eights. And as i watched, he was earning nines (why it isn't on a 10 point scale is beyond me) all over the place. So he's turning in his evals and looking through the scores. He's been talking as if he's a terrible trainer and that he's not that effective. So, this other trainer has been 'duping' me. Because i teach the MS office, and they want high-quality training, the people that i train fill out either paper-form or web-based evaluations. I was at work today and another trainer came in and was turning in his evaluations.
BEATUNES VS TUNE UP SOFTWARE
i teach software programs to corporate and individual clients.
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