Quote of the Day: a Sense of Time and Human Development

When time is perceived as open-ended, goals that become most highly prioritized are most likely to be those that are preparatory, focused on gathering information, on experiencing novelty, and on expanding breadth of knowledge. When time is perceived as constrained, the most salient goals will be those that can be realized in the short-term, sometimes in their very pursuit. Under such conditions, goals tend to emphasize feeling states, particularly regulating emotional states to optimize psychological well-being.

SST predicts that people of different ages prioritize different types of goals. As people age and increasingly perceive time as finite, they attach less importance to goals that expand their horizons and greater importance to goals from which they derive emotional meaning.
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Of course, a focus on emotionally satisfying stimuli may be a double-edged sword. Preferential attention to positive information, for example, may contribute to susceptibility to scams or other unscrupulous efforts to take advantage of older people.

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/312/5782/1913.full

Wisdom!

Arguably, ageing population doesn't necessarily make the world wiser, but it definitely makes it less open to new experiences.



http://psychsocgerontology.oxfordjournals.org/content/69/2/209.full

Закрывая тему мудрости

The frequencies of the verses specifying specific domains of wisdom were then counted. The 10 domains we identified (with the number of verses related to each domain given in parentheses) were as follows: Knowledge of life (28 verses), Emotional Regulation (20 verses), Control over Desires (20 verses), Decisiveness (20 verses), Love of God (19 verses), Duty and Work (14 verses), Self–Contentedness (13 verses), Yoga or Integration of Personality (12 verses), Compassion/Sacrifice (8 verses), and Insight/Humility (7 verses).

Jeste & Vahia. Comparison of the Conceptualization of Wisdom in Ancient Indian Literature with Modern Views: Focus on the Bhagavad Gita. 2008.

Надо связать с нашими диаграммами по теории категорий. Еще интересная связь с Эклезиастом - удовольствие от хорошо сделанной работы.

Суета сует

Очень трудно убедить людей в том, что они неправы, после того, как они выиграли. Например, после успешного захвата Крыма было невозможно объяснить гражданину России, что это стратегическая ошибка, которая обернется долгосрочными проблемами для страны.
Точно так же сейчас бесполезно пытаться убедить сторонников Трампа в том, что они неправы после того, как Трамп выиграл президентские выборы.

Анализ Эклезиаста начинается с 13:18

"В сон мне - желтые огни - Владимир Высоцкий Vysotsky" (Watch on YouTube)