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Half watching a fascinating episode of 20/20 entitled Race and Sex: What we can and cannot say. Didn't plan on it. Just left the tv on after Men in Trees out of laziness. The entire episode examines how we create and continue to reinforce social stereotypes and how those stereotypes, while not true, are reinforced and can hurt our ability to achieve and interact with others. How we may not even realize we have them or think that way.
( 20/20 program on racial stereotyping )
Fascinating and timely for me. These dang self-improvement books are confusing me. Why? Ah. Generalizations. Lots and lots of generalizations. If you are this - then you probably do that or feel like this. And I think, but what if I don't feel this way? It's as if they are attempting to fit me into this little box. Here's the walls, here's what you do, what you should consider, and how it works. Hence the reason I'm not too crazy about self-improvement books.
The Feel the Fear one - made me laugh today. It had one paragraph about how you should stop watching all news for a month and just read self-improvement books, listen to inspiring tapes and discuss those with friends and family instead of world events, focus on the positive and notice how happy you are. (I wrote in the margin: Ah. This is why the majority of people in the US voted for George W. Bush. Explains a lot.) It does say you should go back to the news eventually.
Yep, you guessed it. Information overload. Which means I'm starting to blabber and not make much sense.
Oh on the political front - Bill Clinton had this to say about Iraq in that article I wrote about earlier, entitled The Wanderer:
( politics, Clinton, Iraq, 9/11, 21st Amendment and I actually do a little fact checking. Yay me. )
[As an aside, methinks I may be posting too much on my lj again and should take a breather. Back could certainly use the break. Maybe some DVDs, a film, working on novel, and reading is in order.]
( 20/20 program on racial stereotyping )
Fascinating and timely for me. These dang self-improvement books are confusing me. Why? Ah. Generalizations. Lots and lots of generalizations. If you are this - then you probably do that or feel like this. And I think, but what if I don't feel this way? It's as if they are attempting to fit me into this little box. Here's the walls, here's what you do, what you should consider, and how it works. Hence the reason I'm not too crazy about self-improvement books.
The Feel the Fear one - made me laugh today. It had one paragraph about how you should stop watching all news for a month and just read self-improvement books, listen to inspiring tapes and discuss those with friends and family instead of world events, focus on the positive and notice how happy you are. (I wrote in the margin: Ah. This is why the majority of people in the US voted for George W. Bush. Explains a lot.) It does say you should go back to the news eventually.
Yep, you guessed it. Information overload. Which means I'm starting to blabber and not make much sense.
Oh on the political front - Bill Clinton had this to say about Iraq in that article I wrote about earlier, entitled The Wanderer:
( politics, Clinton, Iraq, 9/11, 21st Amendment and I actually do a little fact checking. Yay me. )
[As an aside, methinks I may be posting too much on my lj again and should take a breather. Back could certainly use the break. Maybe some DVDs, a film, working on novel, and reading is in order.]
