Comments on: On Try, Try and Try Again http://thestormypresent.com/ocean/2008/05/29/on-try-try-and-try-again/ Bursts of Clarity, Illuminated. Thu, 07 May 2009 15:48:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: On Stuff People Eat | Oceans of Thought http://thestormypresent.com/ocean/2008/05/29/on-try-try-and-try-again/comment-page-1/#comment-130 On Stuff People Eat | Oceans of Thought Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:19:43 +0000 http://thestormypresent.com/ocean/2008/05/29/on-try-try-and-try-again/#comment-130 [...] Blow fish: Who’s the second person to try this? If you don’t know, blow fish has a deadly nerve toxin.  I bet the first person didn’t know that.  Or the second, but really, how hungry do you have to be to keep trying to eat the damn thing?  Sure, put it on your spear and stab someone. However…, eat it? Really?! [...] [...] Blow fish: Who’s the second person to try this? If you don’t know, blow fish has a deadly nerve toxin.  I bet the first person didn’t know that.  Or the second, but really, how hungry do you have to be to keep trying to eat the damn thing?  Sure, put it on your spear and stab someone. However…, eat it? Really?! [...]

]]> By: OceansOfThought http://thestormypresent.com/ocean/2008/05/29/on-try-try-and-try-again/comment-page-1/#comment-79 OceansOfThought Sat, 31 May 2008 05:33:25 +0000 http://thestormypresent.com/ocean/2008/05/29/on-try-try-and-try-again/#comment-79 Interesting isn't it, why we do things. AT work when someone new is hired, i take great pains in explaining why we do the things we do. Not all places or departments are this way of course. It's funny to see people in our accounting department explain to someone outside of it a function on their computer. They only speak in menu's and keys pressed, because they have no idea what other things mean, and worse, sometimes, don't care to. Interesting isn’t it, why we do things. AT work when someone new is hired, i take great pains in explaining why we do the things we do. Not all places or departments are this way of course. It’s funny to see people in our accounting department explain to someone outside of it a function on their computer. They only speak in menu’s and keys pressed, because they have no idea what other things mean, and worse, sometimes, don’t care to.

]]> By: FlannelDoormat http://thestormypresent.com/ocean/2008/05/29/on-try-try-and-try-again/comment-page-1/#comment-77 FlannelDoormat Fri, 30 May 2008 14:45:08 +0000 http://thestormypresent.com/ocean/2008/05/29/on-try-try-and-try-again/#comment-77 I think that cognitive dissonance is what caused me to remain with my (now ex-) husband as long as I did (10 years-yikes). sometimes it's nearly impossible to believe that one actually sees what one perceives...and sometimes it's far less painful (at least in the short term) just to ignore it and hope it goes away. somehow I doubt this is uncommon. on an semi-related note, I've always wondered who first thougth it was a good idea to crack open a coconut (a hard, hairy orb) or slice a pineapple (mmm...spikey). Don't get me wrong, I'm glad someone was brave, but I can't help but wonder, "what were they thinking?" and finally, on an almost completely un-related note, I have a short story about my favorite monkey group behavior study. six monkeys are put into a cage containing a ramp with a pull cord at the top of the ramp. after a few minutes, the curiosity of one of the monkeys gets the better of him, and he climbs the ramp to pull the cord. as soon as he does, a jet stream of icy water sprays the monkey collective. after a while a second monkey does the same thing, and the group is sprayed again. it doesn't take long before the needs of the group start to take over, and the monkeys gang up on anyone approaching the ramp so he won't pull the cord. one monkey is removed from the group, and is replaced with a fresh monkey, who of course is interested in the ramp and the cord until the others start beating him. each of the remaining five orignal monkeys are subsequently removed and replaced, so in the end none of the caged monkeys have been sprayed by the icy water, but in turn will join the group beating when another newcomber is introduced and tempted by the ramp and cord. it's entirely possible that they have no idea why they are beating him, it's just "the way we've always done things". I think that cognitive dissonance is what caused me to remain with my (now ex-) husband as long as I did (10 years-yikes). sometimes it’s nearly impossible to believe that one actually sees what one perceives…and sometimes it’s far less painful (at least in the short term) just to ignore it and hope it goes away. somehow I doubt this is uncommon.

on an semi-related note, I’ve always wondered who first thougth it was a good idea to crack open a coconut (a hard, hairy orb) or slice a pineapple (mmm…spikey). Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad someone was brave, but I can’t help but wonder, “what were they thinking?”

and finally, on an almost completely un-related note, I have a short story about my favorite monkey group behavior study. six monkeys are put into a cage containing a ramp with a pull cord at the top of the ramp. after a few minutes, the curiosity of one of the monkeys gets the better of him, and he climbs the ramp to pull the cord. as soon as he does, a jet stream of icy water sprays the monkey collective. after a while a second monkey does the same thing, and the group is sprayed again. it doesn’t take long before the needs of the group start to take over, and the monkeys gang up on anyone approaching the ramp so he won’t pull the cord. one monkey is removed from the group, and is replaced with a fresh monkey, who of course is interested in the ramp and the cord until the others start beating him. each of the remaining five orignal monkeys are subsequently removed and replaced, so in the end none of the caged monkeys have been sprayed by the icy water, but in turn will join the group beating when another newcomber is introduced and tempted by the ramp and cord. it’s entirely possible that they have no idea why they are beating him, it’s just “the way we’ve always done things”.

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