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Post by Admin on Jan 23, 2010 12:00:39 GMT -6
The middle way in terms of stress reduction and pr Take heed that when effort is too strenuous it leads to strain and when too slack to laziness. So make a firm determination that you will adopt the middle way, not allowing yourself to struggle or to slacken, but recognizing that faith, energy, mindfulness, concentration, and wisdom are the fruits of a calm and equable way. -Theragatha Good thought for all of us to meditate on, self included. ~Alena
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Post by Mrs. Darth Vader on Jan 28, 2010 18:02:46 GMT -6
The middle way sounds like a good idea. In my opinion you have to balance between laziness and struggle. You have to asses each situation as it comes. Each situation is different. In some cases laziness is the answer. In other cases struggle is the answer. Some times you need to put a medium effort which is between the two. You have to asses if the effort you put out is worth what you will receive. You can work harder than what the pay off is worth then it is better to be lazy. If by doing nothing you loose more than you must get off your duff.
B. F. Skinner did an experiment on lab rats, which collage students today duplicate, You train your rat to push this bar. A pellet drops down feeding the rat when he pushes the bar. You are supposed to get you rat to push the bar 100 times to get just one pellet. This one pellet is not worth the energy the rat puts out to receive it. If you continued to feed the rat in this manner your rat would starve to death. Luckily the person I know who did this experiment in collage was a humanitarian and latter fed the rat freely after pushing the bar 100 times. Sadly most people who do this experiment are not so kind. But the point of the experiment is to prove that by Skinnerian conditioning you could get the rat to work himself to death. Today Americans have been like wise in Skinnerian fashioned been trained to do. Before this depression people were working 60 hour work weeks. They were working many more hours than what the job was giving them. Over time these people landed in the hospital with bills that far exceeded what good incomes they took home. Suddenly this depression hit and now Americans are being told to work the same 60 hours for half the pay and these are the so called lucky ones with a job to go to. If you kill yourself working to death or you die in the streets by unemployment what difference does it make? dead is dead. So you have to really look at your situation to determine if the effort is worth it.
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