CLASS EVALUATION
- I liked the coding work, and focusing on html. I really enjoyed these projects and the Scratch programming was very insightful and gave a brand new idea for us to focus on. The way we got to create things was great for allowing us to express ourselves.
- This class was great, i can’t think of any dislikes with this course.
- Maybe more quotes should be incorporated from modern famous people, this way we students could relate and understand more. More free writing posts should be given to allow for expression. The goals journals should be allowed to be any kind of journal, maybe even pocket-sized, to allow for portable goals, and reading.
- A highlight of this class had to be the gem quotes, they were inspiring and motivating. It helped to form our computer skills and our minds.
- I tried to do my best in this class, noting how difficult this year was for me. So much, happened in my personal life, and at times it was difficult to cope with school as well. I gave what i could and tried the most i was able to.
- My goals journal has helped me be more confident and has allowed me to accomplish more than i ever have in my entire life. For this i am thankful because it helped keep me on track with my goals, and i achieved them. I read them in the morning and at night to note what i accomplished or would accomplish within that day. It’s funny because my younger brother always questions why i read my homework over and over again, i just explain how it isn’t homework at all, and how it is actually something i enjoy doing it.
- I want to be Ctr person because i’ve always wanted to stand for good and to do good with everything that i can do. I believe in superheroes and this counts, it saves people. I want to make a positive difference in the world and this is a start to making good.
- I will pass forward the leadership skills i learned and pass forward all the quotes that inspired me.
- I will always remember what i learned here and how this class helped me grow.
LAST LECTURE
LAST LECTURE
PERIOD FOUR
2016
STUDENT SUCCESS STATEMENT
“YOU WILL GO FAR WITH CTR”
MR. HAYMORE
CTR stands for choose the right, in this phrase: choosing the right. Choosing the right, is more than just a direction in which to travel, a goal, and mindset. It means choosing good, it means choosing what is right above what is wrong. Over these last four years, our wonderful educator listed above, has given this advice to the generations that have entered his computer lab. Whether we take it or not, he is right. Each person has the option to be good, to do justice, and to be more than just the common individual. Choosing the right is like being a superhero. You do good for others and yourself, fighting for justice and good in dark times. I believe that when you adopt this ideal you put on your own superhero cape. The ideal cloaks you, and protects you from the bad of the world. The first time i heard this phrase i was in ninth grade, my freshmen year, to me, it could have just been any quote on the wall, but it was an entire universe of quotes in one. Mr. Haymore please keep believing in the good in people, and please keep inspiring young minds. Without you none of us would be the same. With this quote, our senior class, and myself, grew. We grew with the idea that this was what was right. The advice given was much more than a simple computer lesson, these were life lessons. With these we came to believe in more.
“Memorial Day is a federal holiday in the United States for remembering the people who died while serving in the country’s armed forces.The holiday, which is observed every year on the last Monday of May, originated as Decoration Day after the American Civil War in 1868, when the Grand Army of the Republic, an organization of Union veterans founded in Decatur, Illinois, established it as a time for the nation to decorate the graves of the war dead with flowers.By the 20th century, competing Union and Confederate holiday traditions, celebrated on different days, had merged, and Memorial Day eventually extended to honor all Americans who died while in the military service.It typically marks the start of the summer vacation season, while Labor Day marks its end.”
Memorial Day is a great way to honor those soldiers that have fallen in battle, and to remember them.
Becoming Your Best: The 12 Principles of Highly Successful Leaders
Becoming Your Best:
The 12 Principles of Highly Successful Leaders
- Be true to your character.
Who you are is essential in defining who you will become and how you can get there. Your character is made up of your reactions to things, and actions towards others. You can appear to be a mean individual due to saying mean things and you can be a good individual due to doing good things. It’s all up to you. Whatever you do, is all you, and you stick to it. Sometimes an attitude can lead to habits and ways of thinking that stay. Being who you are should come naturally. This can sometimes change or be affected by our personal relationships, and the mode of society we are in. Success can affect a character due to the changes iny our life. You get a better home possibly, a bigger paycheck, a nicer car, luxurious items, a new set of friends, and basically a new lifestyle. However big the changes may be, this should not change you. Being successful and staying successful is being true to who you are. This is a factor nobody can force you to change but you do willingly.
There has been moments in my life that my surroundings have affected the way i amm towatrds things, and i have lerarned that no matter how diifficult the situation, or how high expectations are of you, only oyu can beat them. Surpassing adversity requires being focused, and this means focused on who you are in total. if you worry about what others think of you this can lead to your downfall. Only you can judge yourself, and you should only judge yourself if you are willing to improve yourself.
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2. Use your imagination.
Your imagination is the key factor to your individuality and passion. Imagination can also lead to you accomplishing more because of your thoughts. Being different can count as an assest in when you can create something nobody else has ever created. Be imaginative, be a dreamer, wish and hope and create the never-before-seen awe and wonder in people. Thought proccess can never be the same between individuals, people can think ” alike” but never exactly the same that is the beauty of having a mind. I want to work in the parades/ meet & greet characters in disneyland, mainly because i want to spread happinesss to children, and bring them hope. Children really imagine and believe in the characters that brign them hope and i want to bring magic. I guess that’s what makes my imagination move; making people happy.
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3. Apply the power of knowledge
What is knowledge? Simple, it is experience, it is thought process, wisdom, what you know, not just in your mind, but heart. Being smart isn’t always about numbers, sometimes it’s about knowing the truth to things. Knowing that certain things are enough and they are smart and meaningful. For example, one must follow their heart, a quote of wisdom, knowing and understanding this is knowledge. Follow your heart, your intuition, what you believe, be true to yourself. This is the essential factor to being “wise,” and to being successful. Another scenario, when you first touched fire it burned, so when you cook now with fire or light candles, you are careful. Knowing, that fire burns is knowledge.
In everyday usage, knowledge refers to awareness of or familiarity with various objects, events, ideas, or ways of doing things. But, as philosophers have noted for centuries, things get complicated fairly quickly. Consider, for example, the question: What is real? Is the coke bottle on my desk real? Are the trees outside my window real? What about the number pi? What about the pain from the slight cut on my finger? As one ponders these questions, they quickly give rise to the question of how do I come to know things in the first place?
Separating the “How” from the “What” of Knowledge
With some reflection, it becomes clear that, at least to some extent, what is real for me depends in part on how I come to know things. For example, my perceptual, cognitive background structures allow me to experience and understand the Coke bottle on my desk in a particular way; different perceptual or cognitive background structures would result in a different reality. This point was well made in the 1980 film, The Gods Must Be Crazy, which tells the story of the dramatic impact a Coke bottle dropped by a passing airplane had on an isolated tribe in the Kalahari Desert.
The tribesmen interpreted the bottle as a gift from the gods, and the film tracked how that meaning permeated the tribe and impacted its members. This brief example highlights the two broadest angles philosophers take regarding knowledge, which is that of “epistemology” and “ontology.” Ontology refers to the question of reality and is about determining what can be said to really exist in the world. In contrast, epistemology refers to how we humans know things. A “theory of knowledge” would explain what knowledge was, how humans could come to know things, what truly existed in the world, and the complicated relationship between the two.
A Basic Approach to Conceptualizing Knowledge
One of the oldest and most venerable traditions in the philosophy of knowledge characterizes knowledge as “justified true belief”. Although not all philosophers agree that “justified true belief” does in fact adequately characterize the nature of knowledge, it remains the most dominant conception of knowledge. Thus, for many, knowledge consists of three elements: 1) a human belief or mental representation about a state of affairs that 2) accurately corresponds to the actual state of affairs (i.e., is true) and that the representation is 3) legitimized by logical and empirical factors. To be clear about this last element, it is not considered knowledge if, for example, a child, when asked about the molecular nature of water, says “H 2 0” simply because he is parroting what he has heard. In contrast, a chemist who answers “H 2 0” has knowledge because his representation is meaningfully networked and justified by much prior knowledge and careful deductive work.
Justification, thus, is central to this idea of knowledge. The question of what kind of justification is necessary to constitute knowledge is the focus of much reflection and debate among philosophers. Three prominent approaches that have been taken in an attempt to articulate how justifiable beliefs are formed are: 1) foundationalism, which attempts to articulate foundationally true beliefs, from which other conclusions can be derived; 2) coherentism, which argues that knowledge consists of systems and must be evaluated on the degree to which the system has logical coherence that corresponds to external facts; and 3) reliablism, which argues that there are good and bad ways to develop beliefs, and that justified beliefs are those beliefs that are formed based on good and reliable methods. Although philosophers disagree on which is most fundamental, most agree that justification can and should involve all of these elements.
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Kinds of Knowledge
Philosophers often divide knowledge up into three broad domains: personal, procedural, and propositional. Personal knowledge relates to firsthand experience, idiosyncratic preferences, and autobiographical facts. Procedural knowledge refers to knowledge how to do something, such as how to play basketball or ride a bike. Propositional knowledge refers to general truth claims about the world and how we know it. An important difference between philosophy and psychology can be seen in these various kinds of knowledge. Whereas philosophers have generally been concerned with general propositional knowledge, psychologists have generally concerned themselves with how people acquire personal and procedural knowledge.
Ways of Knowing: Empirical and Rational
By what mechanisms do we come to achieve knowledge? The two most dominant answers to this question in philosophy have come from the rationalists and the empiricists. The rationalists argue that we utilize reason to arrive at deductive conclusions about the most justifiable claims. Rationalists tend to think more in terms of propositions, deriving truths from argument, and building systems of logic that correspond to the order in nature. Rene’ Descartes and Immanuel Kant are some of the most famous rationalists, in contrast to John Locke and David Hume, who are famous empiricists.
Empiricists tend to argue that the most basic knowledge we achieve about the world comes from our senses, the direct observations that we make about the world. The distinction between the rationalists and empiricists in some ways parallels the modern distinction between philosophy and science. As the scientific method emerged and became increasingly distinct from the discipline of philosophy, the fundamental distinction between the two was that science was constructed on empirical observation, whereas the initial traditions in philosophy (e.g., Aristotle) were grounded more in utilizing reason to build systems of knowledge.
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Modern versus Post-Modern Views on the Nature of Knowledge
The birth of science gave rise to the Enlightenment, and arguably the defining feature of the Enlightenment was the belief that humans could use reason and scientific observation and experimentation to develop increasingly accurate models of the world. Such models were conceived to be “true” in the sense that they described ontology (the way the world was) in a manner that was separate from subjective impressions. The Periodic Table of Elements is a great example of the success of the idea that nature can be objectively described.
But in many disciplines, especially in the social sciences and humanities, since the 1960s there has been an increasing chorus of voices that challenge the conception of scientific knowledge as being a pristine, objective map of the one true reality. Instead, many have argued that human knowledge is inherently based on context, that is created in part by the way the human mind organizes and constructs perceptions and also by the way the social context legitimizes certain ideas in various historical and political times, and that these elements cannot be completely divorced from our “knowledge”. These scholars fall under the broad term “postmodernism” to highlight the contrast in assumptions regarding the nature of knowledge in contrast to the modernist assumptions of the Enlightenment.
Recent Systems of Knowledge
Although several modern philosophers seriously doubt whether a successful theory of knowledge can be built, there nonetheless have been identifiable developments in mapping knowledge domains and attempting to develop educational systems that begin with the basic structure and domains of knowledge. One such development has been the development of ‘Theory of Knowledge’ International Baccalaureate Diploma Program that teaches students about the ways of knowing and the domains of knowledge such that they can approach many different areas of inquiry with a grounding in how knowledge systems are build.
A second system that has been gaining some notoriety lately is that of Big History, which attempts to create a macro-level perspective of humans since the beginning of time.
My framework, the Tree of Knowledge System, is an approach that has elements in common with both of these approaches. The ToK System carries as a unique feature the proposition that reality as an unfolding wave of energy and information that has developed in four major phases, Matter, Life, Mind and Culture. As part of a new unified view, I argue that it solve the long standing problem of psychology and thus offers a new way to bridge philosophy and psychology and integrate human knowledge systems in to a more coherent holistic view.
4. Never give up
Setbacks and adversity happen, but a person can’t just sit down and give up. A boxer gets hit about 70 times or more per round in the ring, yet they fight and stand up. Never giving up was bravery. If you were brave enough to stand up and do the very thing that scared you then, by default, you are one brave human being. I suppose life is challenging it. Beating life meant living, it was surviving. People can stop believing in you, but you have only failed the moment when you decide you have. don’t give up on what you want to accomplish. Your accomplishment is part of your success.
5. Find peace and balance
Life needs a balance. It’s a mix of everything, but a person needs to have so much of each thing to live fully. Happiness, sadness, anger, excitement, are all emotions that are kept in balance to remain stable in life. For every dark clump of cloud in the sky, there is at least one ray of sunlight. Sometimes life seems bleak and dark, then out of the sudden something incredible happens and it restores all your faith in humanity. Lately, everything has been hard for me, and yesterday i got a job, this will help my family and i can’t wait for that honestly. This is my sunlight. Life also requires the breaka part of it’s individual counterparts. That means school/work is one, family is one, and friends are one, for the basics. You have your physical appearance, health, mental health, and spiritual health. Keeping everything flowing and calm is key in maintaining peace in the chaos. You must keep yourself healthy, eating right, protecting against toxins. This means toxins in the brain and life such as toxic company, and toxic additions that ae unneccesary in your life. You do not need the liquor, or the THC. You do not need the friend that only brings you down. You don’t need to live in the shabby apartment with rats, when you can live in a home far from the slime on the walls. Find peace within yourself, peace is found with understanding, and hope, and adjustments to better yourself.
6. Live the Golden Rule
I suppose the golden rule would be determined by the person following the rule. A golden rule is a basic principle regarding a person’s strongest morals. In religion, the golden rule is doing unto others as you would have them do unto you. A golden rule doesn’t have to be religious. It can be the basic motto you live by, or a motto you strongly believe in. For example, following your heart, never giving up, and fighting for justice. For superheroes, the golden rule would be fighting for justice. For someone trying to be healthy, their rule could be never giving up. For me, i believe my strongest belief would be to follow your heart, and that has been my golden rule for as long as i could remember it having such high importance in my life. This rule is considered to be my golden standard because of what it means for your life. Being true to your heart means unnderstanding yourself, and being nothing other than what you are, it means living the way you believe in your heart is right, it means trusting your heart above all the corruption and darkness. I follow my heart by staying true to what i say and believe in. I follow my heart by knowing what i feel in my heart is wrong. I follow my heart when i let my heart decide. You know what you are capable of and what you are not, you set your boundaries, and you set your goals. The golden rule is up to you and only you, you live by it.
For example this weekend i folllowed my heart and braved what i was to afraid to. I ziplined, and rock climbed, and paintballed, i was afraid of the height, afraid of the drop, afraid of being hit. But my heart said i could so i did, and i knew deep inside that this strength or courage, or whatever it was, had always been there and that it was enough tot drive me forward.To push me to the brink of adrenaline, to push my passion, to inspire and drive me
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7. Build and maintain trust
Trust is what you have for others, for things, and for yourself. You trust in your cellular service provider to give you data and service. You trust your friends to be honest with you. You trust yourself to make the right choice that is best for you. Trust is a simple yet hard thing to keep and have. Trust is never given, but earned. Maintaining and gaining trust means being honest, living up to the expectations you’ve set for yourself, it means staying in blance. If you want trust then you give trust back, trust must be mutual for it to have meaning and be strong. My trust, for example, has remaind the same, if i say it is that then it is what i said because i don’t want to lie. I have mutual trust with my family and friends. For example, I ask my mom if i can go out, she trusts that i’ll acknowledge her rules and be back at the time she specifies, and i trust that she gives me permission to do this and is aware of what i am doing. Another example, a friend may trust me with their secret crush/like, and i can keep their promise because they trust me and i trust them. Trust is easy to keep, just be trustful back.
8. Quick to listen slow to wrath
This means be open minded and hear others out before only sticking to your opinion.Everyone deserves to be heard and this means listening. this can help you be a successful leader because you grow your capacity for empathy and the capacity to learn in yourself. You can collaborate with others and others will hear you out as well and this makes for great cooperation amongst a team. Leaders lead with knowledge, knowledge from experience and from wisdom and from their heart. Open mind and open hearts equals open opportunities and possibilities. Learning to see the opposing views or other views helps when expanding your work.
9. Lead with vision
A true leader must have vision and drive to do what she/he cannot do yet. A goal is something you accomplish that has been set for accomplishment. I want to be a leader. I want to lead with clear goals, and clear understandable reasons for wanting to accomplish the goals. When i say i want to do something, i will, that’s the mindset a person has to have to truly do what they want to do. Being a leader takes guts, and hope. A vision is essential to following your dreams, in a way, a vision is a dream. It is a dream you want in reality. Vision also means seeing, seeing means to look beyond what an individual has accomplished and to what they will accomplish. A vision thus, is a glance at the future to come. Look far beyond today, because what you do today will become what is tomorrow.
10. Manage with a plan
10. Manage with a plan
If you have a plan the world seems easier. Obstacles are dealt with and accounted for in the plan to avoid such challenges or how to deal with the challenge. Plans are useful when deciding things, and making choices seem easier because you understand the benefits and consequences of your actions. Plans are also useful when carrying out ideas, it helps you see where the idea will take you and how yu will get there. These plans are essential when leading a group because it creates order, and a clear understanding of what you and the group will accomplish. I plan to create thank you letters for my peers and teachers, as well as bringing my friends something noting how this will be our last year here. I want to bring my friends roses for the fact that they helped me grow, and they themselves are beautiful people that have endured life just like the flower had. I have been planning the colors and providing reaosning for them, i wish to buy orange rose, or yellow, because they are different, my friends are different, they arent the average red rose and the vibrant shades of orange hues are unique, and still beautiful. This means that you don’t have to be average, you don’t have to fit in, you don’t have to be the same, to be beautiful and to matter. I am planning these ideas becaus ei want those around me to know i truly appreciate them and that they made a diference in my life. I have also planned out future ideas and events i will attend to keep track and stay organized. I run the house in my family, just yesterday i cleaned the fridge and scrubbed the honey remains off the side door of the fridge, i cleaned our trash cans and took out trash, i cleaned dishes, and swept the living room, and tossed out recyclables, and scurbbed our furniture, and organized the laundry so having a plan helps. I make a list of what i need to do, and then proceed in an order that works best. I can wash dishes while the soup is boiling, i can sweep while i pick up clothes, i can wash clothes while im cleaning the fridge, this way i multitask and finish faster. Plans help.
11. Do what matters the most
Doing what is most important is what matters. Its a matter of priorities and focusing your knowledge and time into what truly matters tyo you. If your education is what matters most in your life at the moment then this means channeling all your efforts in to doing what you need to do. this means doing assignments, being accountable for mistakes, and success, being on time, and being focused. Priorities tend to change when going thorugh transitions in your life. That’s is why we don’t notice when we are changing. We are changing with the moment, and we feel it normal for us to be learning and developing. It is part of growing up. As our high school journey is ending soon, i am focusing on what matters the most. Throughout my years in highschool, i have learned that many things influence us. What happens in our lives, those inovlved in our lives, and how we live our lives. I would like to thank my teacher of computer science, new media, Mr. Haymore for the award last thursday. He is truly one of the educators here that has impacted my life and truly helped me succeed here at HPIAM. I learned that IN LIFE, we need to focus on whats important. For me, it is those around us, currently i am developing ideas for letters i wish to write and also gifts i would like to try and give to those i am leaving behind, these individuals are the ones i thank for helping me grow in high school. Channel your focus and heart and mind into what matters the most to you. I have been contemplating what i want to become in the future and have realized i would like to become a computer teacher and help students the way our teacher has influenced us. I want to brighten the minds of future generations, and i have high school to thank for helping me find my path.
12. Be accountable
Being accountable is a matter of perspective. Being accountable may mean being on time, being responsible, and also being there when you are needed. i am loyal and there to support my friends. Because they matter the most to me, ending high school has brought new challenges and new forms of letting go to the present and i honestly really want to be accountable for my friends and to be there for them in all that they do and seek to do in their lives. They are champions, leaders, inspriations, and my strength. Without them, i could never have gotten as far as i am now. We have all been acccountable for each other and i will always support them even when we are apart, this is being accountable. Apologizing when you need to, being honest when you must be, having loyalty, respect, and trust. Accountability is something everyone constantly considers and thinks about.
HISTORY OF THE INTERNET
Ten Tips for Being More Truthful-Barbara A. Lewis
- Make a commitment to tell the truth.
- Tell someone about your commitment.
Making a commitment to be honest means being honest with others and yourself. Sometimes it’s hard to committ to things but at the end of the day it is rewarding to be able to say you stayed committed and determined on your goals. Sharing your committment with someone else lets them know how focused you are on something and how much it means to you. Your commitment may even come off as an inspiration to them. This choice also means having to be loyal, trustworthy, and determined. For example when being in a committed relationship with someone, each person follows being loyal, determined, and trustworthy. You’ll want to keep the other person’s trust and therefore stay committed. This is the case when sharing your commitment to be truthful. Perhaps you tell your best friend that you will be more truthful from now, they then know you are on a mission to avoid lies, and will be completely honest. This is useful when having to be honest to others, this way they will understand where your honesty is coming from and how true it is. Staying focused means wanting to tell the truth, and this will result in telling the truth.
3. Think before you give a dishonest answer.
Reflecting upon your decision to say something dishonest helps. After you reflect you know you can’t be dishonest so you say the truth. Often we just speak but when we reflect on the words we are speaking, we can change what we intitially planned to say. This helps us understand the situation better and it involves a deeper thinking as to what we ourselves would react when hearing the answer. Being honest also helps long term. If a lie carried on, eventually the truth would become a bigger more painful reveal. being honest als o does not mean being rude. For example, your friend is trying on a dress for prom, and she asks you if it loks nice, but the dress in your view does not flatter her, the best choice is to be honest with her and tell her the truth. However you do not want to offend her or make her insecure, so you can simply reply, ” The dress isn’t so nice, im sure you can find a better one,” and help your friend find a dress that will make her shine that night. Being honest is benefitial to you and the other person. In that scenario, your friend would loo very nice at prom, and you would have helped her look good.
4. Be careful of when and how you use exaggeration, sarcasm, or irony.
There is always a limit and boundaries. Exaggerations can often lead to misleading comments and answers. This can harm others. Sometimes sarcasm can be seen as rude, and it depends on the person. It is good to have fun and be funny but not at the cost of being seen as a lier or misleading. Exaggeration and sarcasm are not to be used during formal occassions, or sad situations due to hurting others. People could consider it ridicule or bullying.
4. Be careful not to twist the truth or leave part of it out.
The truth is only completely true when it is honest and real. Leaving part out of the truth gives a person only half the true statement, making it only half true, and not truely true. Suppose a little boy when out to ride bikes with his friends, and his mother asks him where have you been, and he was not allowed to go bike riding, so he answers, ” I wasn’t swimming mom,”the answer is true, he was not swimming, but he also does not tell her the truth she was asking for. The truth can be hard to tell sometimes and can lead to consequences, but repeated lies can lead to even more consequences and worst an entire catastrophe when the lies all turn out to be fake. Twisting your words can be misleading, and unless you are yoda, it really isn’t good to twist words. Twisted words means an unclear sentence or conversation and this can confuse and irritate others, it also converts the statement to a lie. The truth so much more beneficial and easier than lying, so why lie?
6. Don’t indulge in little white lies.
White lies are not helpful to others or to you because they grow. The lies also have a tendency to spread to others, and from there on it grows more. White lies are not as innocent as they seem and often we tend to be careless with other lies, and then when we get caught it was over a simple tiny lie. What is a white lie? A harmless or trivial lie, especially one told to avoid hurting someone’s feelings.These lies can backfire however, and even though they are small, they are still lies. For example consider a murder, if you were a suspect and they asked you where you were during the act and you say at your friend Juan’s house, but you were actually at your house one block away from the incident but said nothing to revoke being involved in the murder. So the officers question Juan and juan says you weren’t there. You become suspicious and a lier.The authorities will question why you did not say the truth, and you become a lead suspect for a murder you did not committ, while in fact you could have been home watching spongebob and eating fruit loops. White lies do not benefit and they put you at risk of creating a bigger problem or lie.
7. Watch out for silent lies.
A silent lie is when you keep information to yourself that could help another. This information is a lie because you knew something but chose to be quiet. This often can lead to disaster for the clueless person, and this is being mean to others. For example, say a man is chasing after his runaway daughter to tell her that he loves her and he asks you at the airport, have you seen my daughter and you know which terminal she is in,but say you haven’t seen her. You lied about knowing. Sometimes silent lies aren’t obvious lies, but they will still remain as lies.
Let’s define “lies of omission”.
A lie is simply defined:
- 1) To make a statement that one knows to be false, especially with the intend to
- deceive.
- 2) To give a false impression.
- 3) Anything that gives or is meant to give a false impression.
Different varieties of less obvious lies:
- 1) Derail: To change the subject of discussion in order to avoid the truth (for example, one might pretend to be offended in order to stop a conversation about one’s questionable actions).
- 2) Confuse: quibble or confuse the issue, or deliberately use ambiguity in order to deceive or mislead.
- 3) Misinform: To invent or perpetrate a false story with the intent to deceive or mislead.
The Lie of Omission
Less obvious than the others, a “lie of omission” is to remain silent when personal morals, ethics, professional or even legal responsibilities call for one to speak up.
A lie of omission is a method of deception and duplicity that uses the technique of simply remaining silent when speaking the truth would significantly alter the other person’s capacity to make an informed decision.
8. When you catch yourself lying, throw your mouth into reverse.
Stop the lies and stop lying. Basically if you feel like you are going to lie , do the opposite, tell the truth. Sometimes a lie wants to come out but you know the truth so it is better to tell the truth. Catching yourself about to lie, is like catching yourself about to fall off a cliff, you move away from the cliff, you stop and reverse. Lies are a big bundle of mess, confusion, and pain, its not something you want to throw at someone. Being a lier is like a disease, if you say a lie, those who believe it can spread that lie, then more and more people become liers.
WHY WE LIE AND HOW TO STOP LINK ( PSYCHTODAY)
Controlling a Response—When you talk to a close friend about an interaction with a co-worker or lover, do you only tell your side of the story? Do you leave out a small but significant detail about something you brought to the table? Do you rephrase the less desirable words you said in the moment? Think about how these subtle changes may influence your friend’s attitude and response. Are you just getting your friend to say what you want to hear? In the end, how authentic is their response if you strategically manipulated the outcome?
How to stop lying
When trying to stop lying people do the same mistake they do with weight loss, they usually try to fix the symptom instead of dealing with the problem itself.
In weight loss, people usually ignore the fact that they are eating because they are depressed (see emotional eating) and not because they are hungry then in the end they find themselves regaining the weight they have lost.
The same goes for lying prevention, people usually focus on stopping lying itself without examining the real cause behind lying.
If you are serious about stopping lying then you should deal with the real reasons behind lying and not with lying itself. Lying is not the problem but its the symptom that indicates that another problem exists.
Why are you lying?
You will need some courage before you can ask yourself that question. Sit alone in a place where no one can disturb you and then ask yourself the question, why am I lying??
- Do you lack self confidence and want to appear more confident in front of people? After all, lots of people lie just to preserve their self image and to prevent others from judging them.
- Are you lying to gain people’s attention because they usually overlook you? Do you think that people are ignoring you and that they are overlooking you most of the time?? Lots of people lie in order to get back the lost attention that they have never been able to get without lying. (see Attention seeking disorder
- Are you lying because you lack courage?? Lots of people lie because they lack the courage to face the consequences of telling the truth. They usually lie because they lack the required skills for dealing with the anger of others.
- Are you lying to gain acceptance and approval?? Some people think that they
are worthy as long as others approve them and that’s why they keep lying in order to maintain this approval.
The right way to stop lying
If lying has became a habit for you then you should not focus on breaking this habit but instead you should be dealing with the root cause. Whether its building self confidence, developing better social skills or dealing with your fears, it wont matter, what matters is that lying will never end before these underlying reasons end.
Learn how to value yourself without depending on the judgment of others, learn how to be more influential without telling stories that never happened and learn how to have faith in your self and your abilities, only then you will stop lying.
10 WAYS TO REWARD YOURSELF FOR WORKING HARD
Being truthful is a hard thing to do when you are put in tough situations, but it will always be the right thing. This is being the hero, the bigger person, this is being honest with not only others, but yourself. The truth will always be golden for the fact that the truth can never be changed. I have learned to reflect on my past judgment and focus on improving what i say and think. This has helped me to be more honest with myself. It has also involved a lot morre brain activity as the capacity of my brain grew. Everyone has lied at least some point in their lives. Maybe about their weight, or grades, or about liking something when they really don’t. Lying can comfort those who it benefits, but hurt others. I have learned that it takes a true champion to remain clean andtruthful, and if you are then honestly that is an achievment. Just because a person hasn’t always been truthful doesnt mean they cant change. So if a person hasn’t been always truthful , it is always a good time to start.
How the internet works~~~~~
The internet is a series of connections on a web, for example a spider web is vast and has many connections. This is why the siites are called websites, because they are points on the web. Like a web the spider’s design is detailed and intricate, blocking certain connections from others. This is the same way that certain software programs, sites, and coding does not allow certain attachments or other hacks from going into it. The internet was developed as a tangible physical system made to move information. This information was meant to connect the globe, to connect past, present, and future together. This is how we can research the past, view news of the present, and search the production of future inventions. We have social media to connect the masses with communication, photos, videos, and voice recording. We have the global entertainment center in one small portable device that is linked to everything and anything posted on the web. The internet was made to span the globe, and this is only possible with fiber-optic wires. These wires carry the connections underground and underseas to reach the rest of the globe. it does this by sending bits across the frame. a bit is any pair of opposites such as On/Off, Yes/No, Hot/Cold,etc. These bits are what allows for things to be created throught the internet. The bits are sent in binary code using a set of ones and zeroes, such as 101101001001001. 8 bits equal 1 BYTE, 1000 BYTES EQUALS1 KILO BYTE, 1000 KILO BYTES EQUALS 1 MEGA BYTE. MP3’s for example are3-4 MEGA BYTES. Each 1 bit is 1 second counted. These are sent across and are measured in bitrate and bandwidth. Bandwidth is the transmission capacity measured by bit rate. Bitrate is the number of bits per second a system can transmit. The time it take for a bit to travel from sender and receiver is called latency. Bitrate is shown as # of bits per second. For example 8Mbps, is explained as 8 million bits per second. The fiber optic cable reflects light bouncing and this is how the internet can move at the speed of light. Radio is created by frequency. The waves vary to send the bits across, this is done wirelessly, and needs to connect. For this to work they connect wifi, and other spots where the frequency is directed to. Wifi is connected to transfer bits through frequency connected through cables. The creators of the internet are Vint Lerf, and Bob Kahn who worked on creating the internet network protocol, IP. The networks connect to transfer the data. The protocol is set for communicating devices to adapt to the protocol set, making bit transfer faster and efficient. The Internet Protocol is an address, the IP address, every internet connected device has an individual and unique address. This number is assigned to the device by network connected to. The IP address sends like a letter to other devices, and includes its origin, and location to transfer to. The address is composed of numbers, which are bits, in various sets separated by a period. They are often 32 bits long, 8 bits for each part of the address on IPV4. The bits are separated by country/network- region network- subnetwork- device. Longer IP addresses are needed due to the growth of the internet and has changed to IPV6 with a total of 126 bits per address. There are 340 undecillion unique addresses in the world and counting. The data is then sent out to a DNS, a domain name system, that associates url witht he address sent. The DNS servers are connected in a distributed hierarchy. They work to move th ebits to find the data you look for by lending each other the files asked for and then returning them back to you. This process is a system of connections between the informations tored and locations were it is stored. When there is a hack this can mean a break in the line returning to location. To avoid this the DNS works using complex and different route systems to transfer, dodging viruses and hacks. Then when the info is sent back to your device, it does an automatic check of the files before presenting them to you. If the check is not clear, the files are resent until they are perfect. This explains constant buffering in videos.
10 Keys to Personal Power
BRIAN TRACY’S “TEN KEYS TO PERSONAL POWER”
Key 1: Clarity
“Have vision. Determine what you want to be, do or have in life. Have a sense of direction and know where you’re going. If you do not have clear specific goals in life, you are doomed forever to work for others who do.”
Having clarity means being certain of something, and knowing deeply that it is what you want to do. 50% Decision Made, and 50% Important reasons as to why that decision is made. Goals need to have purpose, and need to be set in order to accomplish things in life. “Clarity,” is a song by the artist ZEDD featuring Foxes, this song speaks of a dysfunctional love, where both individuals recognize the problems, but still both agree and understand that this love is what they want. The lovers believe that although their love may be chaotic, it is still their goal and something they want. When making decisions we must have certainty and clarity that it is what we want and the desire and passion for that goal will serve to motivate us to accomplish this goal.
Lyrics to “Clarity” – Zedd, feat. Foxes
Key 2: Competence
“If you commit to excellence, opportunities will always come your way. The harder you work, the better you get.”
Practice makes permanent. For new things to get better you must work harder. This means finding it in you to keep going. Endurance, and persistency. No one is ever just granted something. Fight for your happiness and goals, and work hard to achieve them. People in other countries and scenarios in life do not have the resources you may have and taking those resources for granted can lead to less work from you. Work hard, work smart.
Key 3: Concentration
“Make the best use of your time. Ask yourself “Is this the best use of my time?” before you start anything.”
Focus on what you need to. It is easy to be distacted, especially in modern society. So much technology and entertainment to play with that we find ourselves running into daily distractions. The essential question to ask per day : “WHAT DID YOU DO FOR HUMANITY TODAY?” This question includes you. What have you done for yourself today? Each thing you do affects you and mainly you because they are your choices. So next time you feel you are falling behind, that is your body telling you that you need to do better. On the bus, read that book you had assigned. In the shower , recite the amendments you had to memorize. When you’re having lunch jot down your to-do list to recognize where your new found energy will be directed. Life is short, and wasting time on planning it means failing in living it.
Key 4: Common Sense
- Train your mind
- think things through
- listen to your intuition
- learn from setbacks
Common sense is essential to keeping your sanity. Your mind is your most important assest. Stress can derail your train of thought and can alter the way you perceive things, so keeping away stress helps. Keeping a clear conscience is also helpful in decision making and it helps you not feel clogged. Logic, and knowing right from wrong can be helpful in a variety of situations. For example, imagine if you got the opportunity to cheat on a test you did not study for, you use common sense. 1. You should have studied 2. Think it through, is it really worth it? 3. Listen to your intuition, if you feel it is wrong then it is wrong. 4. Learn from this situation and become better. Using your brain progresses you forward!
Key 5: Creativity
“Accept the fact that every human being is a genius. The hallmark of creativity is asking questions. The people who are most creative ask the most questions.”
Everyone is smart in what they are skilled at, and trying and attempting to do something you aren’t good at is smart because they are learning what they lack. Creativity can often challenge the way things are and the way things could be. This means everyone’s thought process is smart in their own way. For the artist, a new painting is a never before imagined theory. His/her art is created by inspiration, but is still different than anything they have seen, so it can count as an invention. It takes brains to create something out of nothing. Being practical is also a form of intelligence. Consider the person cliping coupons and a person can label them poor, but they are smart due to using their resources to save money.
Key 6: Consideration
“The quality of your relationships with other people will determine your success in life.”
“Develop the people skills you need to become a better communicator. Take courses in listening, speaking, etc.”
“If you were to learn one new word a day, within 5 years, you’ll be the best educated person in history.”
Opening your mind and your heart to new things can mean taking control of your life, and living it fully. The world is not two-dimensional and neither should a person’s perception of the world. If you seek to let in new opportunities those opportunities can open more chances of living life than opposed to never taking any opportunities. Consider your surroundings, this includes your relations, your status in the world, and they way you live life. Is this the way you want to live? How can things change this? Considering the world means opening your mind to more and opening the chance to rethink things. Some people are poison, and often times we don’t see the venom. So recounting the relations you may have, opening your mind you can note the way that some people are not what you previously assumed them to be.
Key 7: Consistency
“Dependable, steady predictable work is always superior to fast spurts of work.”
Be consistent in your relationships, your family, friends, your boss, your work. Be the person that people can depend upon. That if you say you’ll do something you do it..”
Be consistent in your relationships, your family, friends, your boss, your work. Be the person that people can depend upon. That if you say you’ll do something you do it..”
Being consistent means being reliable. This factor can get you promotions in work and can get you further ahead and build stronger relations with those you know. Work must be continuous to progress, nothing became of something started, and not repeated and completed. Often being consistent can seem challenging due to outside obstacles constantly changing your path, but remaining and staying means moving forward. In a game for example, when you play and try to achieve the objectives, you can pass many levels and move onward, but if you continue to mess up on a particular round then the game doesnt continue to level up. To move forward in life, you must continue to push forward and try your best.
Key 8: Commitment
“No success is possible without commitment. The ability to commitment to yourself whole heartily is the basis of achieving all success.”
“Become totally absorbed in your work. Be totally committed.”
Being committed to the work you are doing means giving your entire devotion and focus on the goal. Scientist devote their lives to research and this research is what drives their passion for doing what they do. This kind of focus should be appplied to anything an individual seeks to accomplish and their acomplishment will seem to be accomplished much faster than expected. Practice makes permanent, this practice can forever become a habit and a way of life fr the individual that is doing what they are supposed to do.
Making a Commitment. – Psychology Today
Rule of Commitment – About Health
Key 9: Courage
“The fear of failure is the single greatest reason for failure in life.”
It is better to fail at something than succeed immediately. Failure means practice and effort and hoping f0r success. Don’t be afraid to fail. Failure results in experience and lessons learned. In a video game, when you fail a mission or level, the character most often gains experience points. The character and you the player both learn from the obstacles, you learn strategy and tactics to redo what you did strong, and reflect on improving your weaknesses. This leads to success. Successful people have failed many times, until achieving success. The harder the fight, the sweeter the triumph. Don’t shy away from losing, welcome losing and learning.
Key 10: Confidence
“You only get confidence by doing things over and over again .”
Confidence is from within. A person can call you handsome/beautiful multiple times and not affect the listener. The listener chooses what to listen to and how it will affect them. Confidence is believing in yourself, regardless of what others believe. i have confidence in playing music and solos, even when im the only one playing, or im playing the highest note there. I practice so often, and play so much, im not afraid to be loud or better yet, to be heard. I have confidence that i can do what i have practiced doing. It is braver to face up to your fear of shyness, then to back down. Know what you can do and believe in yourself. The only one that can give a person confidence is themselves.
Personal power is about impowering yourself personally. This means making and learning to build yourself in order to improve. Having clear visions of what to open your mind to and what goals to pursue. It is findig total focus and determination to achieve and succeed. This means practice and this means finding ways to push yourself further and to further what you could be. Making schedules and setting aside time to build the empire within you. For impowering th e individual, one must concentrate on finding your key goal in life and as a person. Perhaps someone’s goal is to change the world, to make a massive global company, to start a foundation to save humanity, whatever the case, it means knowing what you desire and knowing how to achieve and push yourself forawrd to it. To rank in numbers and statistics, an individual must have common sense and use logic in making choices that can determine their future. The values of a person must remain in tact and that’s difficult when people degrade a person’s values. Staying strong, and staying true to who you are can benefit the individual. It is a benefit and a secret weapon because no one can be what you are. An individual is individual. This means imagining and creating what has never been done before. This is something, a form of invention, only you can create. Within these thoughts the individual also takes consideration of actions and long term effects of the actions and how it affects those around her/him. To keep being strong, a person needs consistency. Be loyal, be strong, and never giving up. Staying and following your heart is the key. It is necessary to stay committed to your work and to be committed most importantly to yourself. Have the courage to fight and stand for yourself. Have the confidence to believe in yourself. With this, the world can’t stop you, and you’re invincible.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Habit 1: Be Proactive
“Habit 1 is the key to unlocking all the other habits and that’s why it comes first. It says, “I am the captain of my life. I can choose my attitude. I’m responsible for my own happiness or unhappiness. I am in the driver’s seat of my destiny, not just a passenger.”
Make a change in the world, and do your job to live life. If you have a job, it is your job to work hard. As a student, your job is to learn. As a living creature, your job is to live. We need to do what is set for us, to complete the plan. To live fully, one must experience life in its entirety. Be productive, and stay positive to move forward.
Habit 2: Begin with the end in mind
“Control your own destiny or someone else will.” (Jack Welch)
When reflecting on life realize goals and have set ends for them. For example losing weight, set a goal weight you wish to achieve as a end, so you know where you are heading. Life is a series of goals, victories, and persistency. Goals are motivation to move you forward in the world, and with goals you accomplish more. Right now, my cousin and I are exercise buddies. She really wanted to live a healthier life, and doesnt want to do it alone so together we are helping each other and our families become healthier from food choices to daily exercise. Yesterday for example, her dad, her, and me went for a brisk walk and then a jog around a park. Both of our households are focusing on having a healthy diet, so we are constantly finding new recipes for dinner and lunch. Our goal is to help our family become more healthy. This goal will help the members of our family with their own health and can help us all live health lifestyles in the future. The end, is never something we must dread but a goal we look forward to. Another view to this habit could be life. Life as we know it can end. So as mortals, we need to live our days to the most capacity of our potential, or at least live it happily. For me, I actually have a goal for each day. My goal each day is to be happy at least once throughout the day, and to make someon else happy. This way i feel accomplished and as if i brought some good to the world. Being successful requires looking to the future. So next time remember the future is the future and you can change it, the past is past and a memory. Focus on tomorrow, and today will only be yesterday.
Habit 3: Put First Things First
“Organize and execute around priorities.”
Priorities are first, and what matters should be accomplished and focused on. For a student school is first, for a parent their children come first, and likewise in other life scenarios. I currently have my homework to maintain and colleges to plan for. Focusing my time on my work has honestly allowed me to be more time conserving and honestly has helped me learn more. I honestly can say that managing priorities helps a person stay organized and relieves the headaches of stress.
Habit 4: Think Win-Win
“Think win-win or no deal.”
Think about the benefits and positive sides to every scenario and case. Their is always a good factor to acknowledge. In rough times, and bad times one must always see the good in the moment. I remember when we lost our Uncle to cancer a few years ago, all we could think about is how he is at rest now, and at peace in heaven. It was nice to imagine that he no longer had the harsh medicine and the needles, and that is how we viewed the passing. Also only doing good , and you recieving good, which in total is also win win. If you volunteer for giving food for the people in need, you give good, help and feel good. So partaking in such actions also help people be successful and accomplish things in life.
Habit 5: Seek First to Understand then to be Understood
“Diagnose before you prescribe.”
“Diagnose before you prescribe.”
Listen to others, and you yourself can be heard. No one is able to understand someone who doesn’t understand others. People can sympathize with thoughts if you are willing to hear them out. For example in a debate, the person who wins, wins for two reasons. One, their argument was valid, and two the opposing argument was carefully examined, understood, and counter argued. Hearing helps. In many careers, you must be skilled at hearing and understanding. A simple job, for example a barista in a coffee shop, they must hear orders, and carefully understand the recipe to be able to make the beverage and give it to the customer. Teachers listen to questions of students, and students hear the wisdom from their teachers.
Habit 6: Synergize
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts (1+1=3)
“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts: 1+1=3”
Four Dimensions of Self-Renewal: Physical, Mental
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts (1+1=3)
“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts: 1+1=3”
Four Dimensions of Self-Renewal: Physical, Mental
” Synergize is the habit of creative cooperation. It is teamwork, open-mindedness, and the adventure of finding new solutions to old problems. “
Collaborating together with others is a form of synergizing. This can mean brainstorming ideas together and working together to solve or renew ideas. It is highly effective to work positively because you can complete tasks more quickly and this is effective when finishing work in your job, or for school such as projects. Cooperation also deals with positivity and being open minded to other’s opinions, and thoughts on something.
Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw
Four Dimensions of Self-Renewal: Physical, Mental, Spiritual, Social/Emotional
Four Dimensions of Self-Renewal: Physical, Mental, Spiritual, Social/Emotional
Sharpen the saw, is a metaphor for renewing something. For example, relearning something you know to add more knowledge, or doing something that can further your knowledge. Redo what you have done, and do what you have not. If you trained to get a 7 minute mile score, train for a 6 minute mile. Sharpening the saw can be just that, sharpening your tools. Sharpen your mind and expand its knowledge. Revive your heart by opening it up. Renew you way of thinking, by being open minded.
These habits are essential, to be successful in what you plan and to complete goals. This post is truly about how to work life, and get things done. Being productive means prioritizing, and working constantly. The mindset of success has been to be positive and
goal oriented. Life is a series of goals, victories, and persistency. To live fully, one must experience life in its entirety. So as mortals, we need to live our days to the most capacity of our potential, or at least live it happily. In rough times, and bad times one must always see the good in the moment. It is highly effective to work positively because you can complete tasks more quickly and this is effective when finishing work in your job, or for school such as projects. Listen to others, and you yourself can be heard. Being an effective person means being hardworking, and meaningful and useful to others. This means being open minded, open hearted, and open handed, listening, caring, and helping.
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