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人生會議

人們
總以為命運是 被安排的
特別是不幸的遭遇 常習慣將之歸咎於是 天註定的...

是來自上天 老天爺的處罰
是來自上輩子的 因果 業障
是欠某人的前世債...

你並不等於你的八字

仍然有許多人們
習慣性地把自己的出生八字當成是自己的人生寫照

一遇到某個老師說啥將來不好的情景時 就會煩憂
然後再趕緊尋找另一命理老師
看看能否聽到"好聽"的解析來取代擔心...

錢 vs 富

台語中 "有錢人"和"好葉人"(富有的人) 的差異在那兒?

你可以同時當有錢人和富有的人

但是 不可不知富有人那"永遠花不完的十萬元"源源不絕的魅力!
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心的溫度,自己決定!

by: aloon 10.30.2009

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一位白髮 蒼蒼的老 教授在學生畢業的最後一節課時說: 
「這是我給你們上最後一堂課了,這是一堂簡單的實驗課,也是一堂深奧的實驗課,

我希望你們以後能永遠記住這最後一堂課。」教授說著,取出一個玻璃容器,又注入了

半容器清水。教授把盛水的容器放進一旁的冰櫃說:「現在我們將它製冷。」

過了一會兒,容器取出來了,裡面的水凝結成了晶瑩剔透的冰。

教授說:「 0℃以下, 這些水就成了冰,冰是水的另一種形態,但水成了冰,它就不能流動了。」

「現在,我們來看水的第三種形態。」教授邊說邊把盛冰的玻璃容器放在酒精爐上,並點燃了酒精爐。

過了一會兒,冰漸漸溶化成了水,後來水被燒沸了,咕咕嘟嘟地翻騰出一縷縷乳白色的水蒸氣,在實驗室裡靜靜地氤氳著、瀰漫著。過了沒多久,容器裡的水蒸發乾了。

教授關掉酒精爐,讓同學們一個個驗看玻璃容器,說:「誰能說出這些水到哪兒去了呢?」

學生盯著教授,他們不明白這最後一堂課,學識淵博的教授為什麼給他們做這個最簡單的實驗。

教授看著那些不願回答這個問題的學生說:「水哪裡去了呢?它們蒸發進空氣裡,融進藍藍的遼闊無邊的天空。」

教授微微頓了一頓又說:「你們可能都覺得這個實驗太簡單了,但是……」

教授口氣一轉,嚴肅地說:「它並不是一個簡單的實驗!」

教授瞅了一眼那些迷惑不解的學生說:「水有三種狀態,人生也有三種狀態。水的狀態是由溫度決定的,人生的狀態是由自己心靈的溫度決定的。」

教授說:「假若一個人對生活和人生的溫度是 0℃以下,

那麼這個人的生活狀態就會是冰,

他的整個人生境界也就不過他雙腳站的地方那麼大;

假若一個人對生活和人生抱平常的心態,

那麼他就是一掬常態下的水,他能奔流進大河、大海,但他永遠離不開 大地;

假若一個人對生活和人生是100℃的熾熱,那麼他就會成為水蒸氣,

成為雲朵,他將飛起來,他不僅擁有大地,還能擁有天空,他的世界和宇宙一樣大。」

教授微笑著望著他的學生們問:「明白這堂最簡單的實驗課了嗎?」

「不,這不是一堂簡單的實驗課!」學生們異口同聲地回答。

水的溫度靠火的加溫達到 100℃,而人心靈的溫度則靠正面的思考、樂觀的心、

親友的關懷、溫柔體貼的心、對這世界的好奇心、勤奮努力等等來加溫。

希望今天這篇文章能讓各位朋友們心的溫度升到滿滿的 100℃,

讓您我的生活變的更多加采多姿。

聰明的人,喜歡猜心;雖然每次都猜對了,卻失去了自己的心。

傻氣的人,喜歡給心;雖然每次都被笑了,卻得到了別人的心。

得意人前勿談失意事,失意人前勿說得意事。

得意時,勿忘陪您走過失意時的朋友。

誰偷走了你的相機

by: aloon 10.28.2009

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大概沒有人選在悲傷的時刻,會想要拿起相機做拍照留念吧!

 

多數人的生活照,應該都是歡笑、快樂、幸福、滿足、感動、美好… 的相片吧!

 

你多久沒有拍照 就代表你多久沒有快樂的片刻 … 你認同嗎?

 

那麼,是誰偷走了你的相機?

還是是誰偷走了你的快樂?

 

上班、工作、賺錢 是為了更美好的生活 … 很多人這麼說  也無需反對

但是 更美好的生活 不必用最新的相機機型 最in的手機 最夯的車型 最頂級的豪宅… 來取代

因為 人在努力追逐"最好的"的過程中

往往最容易忘了最美好生活的本質… 也就是享受當下的富足

 

時間的運轉非常的快

如果你不偶爾停下腳步 看看自己的周遭 來享受當下的片刻幸福

那你可能會錯過許多美好… 在生命中 !

 

拿出你的相機 … 笑一個吧 : )

登高望遠

by: aloon 10.26.2009

“Nobody trips over mountains.

It is the small pebble that causes you stumble.

Pass all the pebbles in you path,

and you will find you have crossed the mountain.”

沒有人會被山脈絆倒.

通常會造成你跌倒的都是小石塊.

一一通過你前進路途上所有的小石頭後,

你將會發現你已經越過了整座山陵。

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還記得很久以前
應該是在"青年的四個大夢"  那個年代吧 (1980初版)
社會氛圍 強調的是"良師益友" 與其影響一生的重要性
現今社會步調加快
講求的是職場貴人 金主貴人 事業貴人… 居多
才得以適切地跟上經濟發展的脈動

然而 一時的貴人 值得感恩
但是 一世的貴人 卻是感動
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線上影片直播:
最後14堂星期二的課  | 阿綸電影院
書本資料:
最後14堂星期二的課 | 米奇. 艾爾邦

貪欲

by: aloon

























沒有貪欲 就少了人性
少了人性慾望的追求 就少了對人性的深刻體認

佛書 經書 聖賢書
都是前人在歷經人性貪欲的反覆得失後 所琢磨出來的智慧
是生活與人格修行的參考 但絕不是成佛成道的捷徑
所謂...
沒去過地獄 哪知曉天堂的來到
沒經過黑夜 哪明辨白天的光明
沒有貪噌痴 哪悟得放下的智慧

修練 不單讀萬卷書 更要行萬里路
這萬里路 非狹義的旅行而已
更應該是 廣義的人生階段經歷...
比如...
體認黑夜白天與春夏秋冬
經過生老病死與悲歡離合
處事起承轉合與勝敗得失
人際愛恨情仇與喜怒哀樂...盡是萬里心歷路...

除非年輕就皈依宗教 (各種宗教皆是)
則可因學習與奉行無上生命智慧教義而淨化生命
不然 未經人性社會考驗 直接拿佛經聖賢書來當現實生命準則
多數機率會掉入象牙塔的迷障中
(再次強調 早已皈依 另當別論 因那人生課題是不同的)

想要修練自我 也是一種貪欲
那是承認貪欲存在的心態

想要突破自我 還是貪欲
一種認為自身不完美的反面心理

無我 才能觀自在
自在 不是遠離欲望 逃避現實 找到一個讓你安全自在的地方
自在 是在欲望環境 嚴苛現實 仍可迎刃而解處之泰然的態度

貪欲 是人性本然 也是神性 佛性
差別在於 如何與之自在共舞的覺知罷了

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你是否有過這樣的求職經驗:

面試時與面試官相談甚歡…

當時對方也說你的學經歷各方面很符合該公司的求才要點…

福利、薪水、細節 … 都鉅細靡遺地彼此交換意見…

也說可能會很快地通知你去上班 … 再次確認你最快可上工的日期…

一切的一切 看似面試官幾乎要把"你已錄取了"脫口而出…

然後 帶著"等候通知"興高采烈地回家  沿路上 整個心已經幻想起開始上班的愉快了…

當然 人力銀行的網站 就自然地先擺在一旁不管了

因為 "應該就是會錄取的啦" !

 

幾天過去 一周過去…

後來終於來mail / 簡訊/ 電話… 告知

對方公司很欣賞你的才能 但是由於… 所以… 沒有錄取…

這樣的晴天霹靂 應該蠻多人有這樣的經驗

 

從這狀況中 有經驗的求職者 自然會學到幾個應對心態:

1. 不要單戀一枝花。感情不花心 但求職一定得花心

2. 不要視為理所當然。與面試官怎麼相談甚歡 並不代表已經錄取

試想 面試官也是想在手上握有多一點的候選/備選人 話中難免透露著"有希望"的訊息!

其實 若站在他的角度來看 也算必要之惡啦!(當過面試官就知道的)

3.  就算自認某個面試滿意 還是要繼續面試直到已經上工為止

4. 別責怪和懷疑自己。求職要被錄取的客觀影響條件很多 並非是你自己能掌控的!

 

這第四點,正是在許多求職者身上看到的自我心態的陷阱,特別在連續兩三個求職失敗後,

求職者多會開始懷疑起自己的能力,並且自信心也就隨著各種負面思想而愈見消彌。

可怕的是,當第一步走進這責怪自己的陷阱後,面對其背後具有競爭意義的面試,往往就會

逐漸喪失鬥志與勇氣,即使隨後有第二次面試機會,心中的自信也因已自我打過折扣,就不易成功,

於是如骨牌效應般地導致後續求職意願下滑,而人力銀行往往是要上不上或無心式地瀏覽罷了。

 

這種情況,若無家人好友的鼓勵和支持,隨著時間流逝,要找工作就會難上加難,

特別是失業超過六個月以上者,情況就越明顯。 再加上,當自己都不相信自己時,

求職之路是絕對踏不出去的。

 

在紫微斗數的流年裡,雖然是有求職的順利與否的契機點,

但是,我總覺得"信心"才是主導是否順利的主角,當你沒有了信心,

即使我把最佳錄取流月精確地推算出來也是白搭的,因為連你都不相信你自己了,

流年流月… 就不必了!

 

寧願你怒罵那個面試官,也不要你責怪和懷疑自己,而掉入那看不見的陷阱。

更希望你把怒氣轉換成動力,繼續向前走,自然柳暗花明又一村。

12招秘技- 保住飯碗不被裁員

by: aloon 10.20.2009

不管景氣是否回升 經濟已經開始復甦與否

大部分在職場上的人們 大多都很清楚

除非被高薪且有保障地挖角

不然 實在不敢隨意說換就換工作

畢竟 各產業的經營者 吃力的還是比輕鬆營運的來得多

先保住飯碗不被裁員 恐怕是大家當前的第一要務

 

雖然我也贊成 待人處世上凡事要正面思考

但若在前提有先做好基本措施與準備

那樣才不會使正面思考的原意 流於虛幻或變成"拿香跟拜"喊口號

阿綸在這裡提供12個保住飯碗的基本要項 與大家交流:

1. 清楚定位與明確掌握好你自己的工作內容、部門目標和老板的期望

切勿打混度日 像台語講的: 穿吼水水 等領薪水 … 是不行的喔!

2. 要掌握公司與職場的訊息脈動 偶爾要跟同事一起吃吃午飯或交流

當然不是要你去搞小團體聊八卦… 重點是別當"職場荒野裡的一匹狼" 

除非 貴公司或部門性質特殊 完全是獨立作業 人人不相往來 那另當別論

3. 上司交辦事項 要特別執行徹底 這是正面的巴結 可獲得上司的信任感

當然啦 能做到讓部門主管以你為榮臉上有光 肯定也是好事一樁的

4. 持續學習新的職場技能 除增加職場自我"被利用的價值"外

更重要的是 在無形中也可從新技能學習裡 挖掘自己從未發現的才能與天分

5. 自己工作認真的一面 要能被上司看得到 不管是有形的工作模樣或無形的工作效益

別自命清高光說"不與人爭"…的傻話  那是對不起你在工作上所付出的心力的

而且 也要讓上司感受到 他這份薪水 付在"看得到"的人身上或事情上 … 要一石兩鳥!

6. 若臨時被要求早到或加班晚下班 先別急著抱怨

藉這機會來表現自己 且當這臨時任務執行得好

自然可以與上司情商是否有加班的必要  何需在一開始狀況不明就先反抗"加班" …不智之舉 !

7. 有額外特殊任務 而上司需要"義工"協助時 儘量義務參與

相信 就算是鐵石心腸的上司 也能感受到你對公司的"認同感"呢! 但別心不甘情不願喔!

8. 對於你自己經手或完成任務的工作 自己都要一一悉數記錄下來

除了自己每隔一小段時間可自我檢討外

在有必要時 是可以讓上司看到你的工作記錄進而使之認同你的工作歷程與貢獻軌跡的

但是有一點萬萬要記住: 別以為全公司只有你最認真 … (多數人都這麼覺得啦)

那樣 只單會讓你覺得"職場老是不公平"之感 並徒增自我困擾而已 別無好處!

9. 多和公司裡工作認真的同仁一起共事或交流

所謂近朱者赤 可以讓你更融入職場中 更加正面思維的工作態度或熱忱

10. 做好被裁員的最壞心理打算 就不再去空想或擔心這檔事

並持續學習職場技能、做好上述提醒與做好自己職責工作 … 就好了!

11. 要有人生後半段的粗略規劃 在空閒時間多多接觸與琢磨該計劃中的人事物…

若原本就是自己的興趣 嗜好或是天分所在 那是最好的 如此 更能為自我未來的可能性加分

12. 不論在工作職場或家庭生活中 都要能保持健康 光明與正面思考的生活態度

裁員之禍 自然會離你越來越遠 !!!

 

台語俗諺: 樹頭站得穩,就不驚樹尾做風颱 ! … 就這個道理 !

有人問: 活超過120歲以上的命盤要如何算?

[問題連結與人瑞相關報導]

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紫微斗數 是一門所謂的祿命學
其功能在於推算常人對 "妻財子祿" 的追求運勢
也就是泛指的 "感情 錢財 子女 官祿" 所組成的社會型態架構
對於上了年紀 或了悟世間紅塵 或年老癡呆 或處於無爭無求環境...
紫微斗數就不必派上用場了

人的大腦是一個藉由各種因素引起思考
而會產生電磁效應的器官
當面對不同的環境或人事物的碰撞
會產生自我生存(利益)的思考
一旦有了思考 就會由大腦突觸產生的磁波
來與環境的磁場互動 進而產生量子的磁波碰撞
且因人人個性不同 學習不同 追求和在意的事項也不同
就會產生不同的觀念 來處理當下的環境問題
以便讓自己有生存(利益)下去 或 選擇放棄的動作...

換句話說
年紀到一個程度
或 人生體驗到一個階段
或 所處的環境使然...
若不再需要藉由大腦的突觸來引發個性 觀念 作法 選擇...
來煩惱於世間常存的妻財子祿

那麼 也就不需要用到紫微斗數了

因為 紫微斗數 是祿命學 是給追逐名利 權勢 金錢 ... 專用的
對於 停止追求 與 放下一切的人... 是無用武之地的

如果說人有生辰八字 來斷禍福 [可參考我的文章 按這裡]
那就好比地球的經緯度 來作氣象預測與環境對應的研究
當人瑞不需要追求名利權勢時
就好像是身處桃花源一般...
而桃花源 是不必做氣象預測的
因為 天天都是好心情 自然天天都是好天氣
管他什麼經緯度... 一樣不管用 !

倘若 您非要算不可
那麼 120歲以上的人
其十年大限 會回歸於第一個大限
唯一要注意的是 該大限的宮干與延伸的各宮宮干
要延續上個大限而來 不再以原盤的五虎遁月所得之宮干
而其流年運勢 依然與常人一樣 按造常態的流年推算即可

婚姻 | 時間契約

by: aloon 10.15.2009

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如果我們結婚時
要簽婚姻的時間契約
你願意嗎?

如果我們只簽一年
那你願意用一輩子的愛與關懷
在這一年內 全用來好好愛我嗎?

如果我們要簽十年
那你願意讓我們選在你運勢最差的十年大運之時嗎?
因為這樣你就不會因運勢太好的忙碌而疏忽了我
也就有更多的時間來陪我

如果我們要簽一輩子
那你會不會把你的愛
切割成數十等份 然後分成一年一等份地 每天只剩一點點地愛我?
甚至 淡忘掉怎麼愛我?

紅綠燈

by: aloon 10.14.2009

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紅綠燈 是都會區最常見的交通號誌之一
是很容易遵守的: "紅燈停 綠燈就走"
這對多數人而言 挺簡單的
但是林立於生活中的紅綠燈 就相對要花些心思來遵守了...

比如說
小孩子的紅綠燈 就是家規了
也可延伸說成家教 嚴肅點也叫家法
不過 應該大部分家庭 是沒有用"明文"來規定吧
說穿了 就是從小到大 父母說不可以的就是家規
也就是小孩子行為舉止的紅燈標誌
一般而言 所謂的家規 大人說了算
不過 有時是看大人的情緒而定的
心情好的時候 原本會被處罰的事由
就會被網開一面了!
於是 聰明的小孩 就開始從中學習如何看大人的臉色
來游走於家規裡 以免受罰

上了學校 也有紅綠燈 就叫校規
這就比家規麻煩些了 因為是有明文規定的
舉凡常見的爬牆 抽菸 打架... 怎處罰 (似乎)都有記載
雖然 鮮少學生去研究校規
但至少 哪些事違反校規 大抵是清楚的

這裡 有個小故事 算不算違反校規 我現在倒是不禁玩味起來...
我念的高中原本是所男校 (二十多年前)
會被記過的是哪些勾當 誰不知道 光看佈告欄就知八九
也就是天天偷偷做的那些事 只是有沒被教官逮到的差異罷了
老教條 老規定 沒新鮮的
直到念高三時 才知道有件事 校規也管
話說學校在我高三那年起開始招收第一屆女生
一個學期都還不到 同班同學就把一個學妹的肚子搞大了
當時這同學是以破壞校譽為由 被記大過
現在想想 當時學校的校規 恐怕還來不及"立法"性關係的規定
就已經被同學超越了
男同學面對女生家長及後續的部分不談
單就這一個破壞校譽的涵蓋範圍 想想還真是寬廣
只是 當時大家也覺得 同學肯定理所當然地會被記大過
在那一個多數學生沒有異議的年代

出了社會 成了大人 紅綠燈就更多了
憲法刑法民法...很多人搞不懂的一堆法律 是一定有的
交通規則 稅法 公司法 勞工法 ... 也是一堆可獨立探討的規定
這些有形的 有明文規定的 還算好的 萬一觸了法 該怎就怎看著辦
重點是 還有更多無形的紅綠燈...
上司下屬間 同事間 人際關係與職場倫理的紅綠燈
婆媳 姑嫂 妯娌... 的紅綠燈
愛情 友情 情侶 夫妻 婚姻... 到處都有紅綠燈
若再加上所謂"道德"的紅綠燈 那就真數不清了

想想 當大人 還真累
難怪 大人都不由地規定小孩子 "這不行 那不可以..."
因為自己就生活在到處都是紅綠燈的環境中

不過 最有趣的 就是如同常聽到小孩子說的: 為什麼大人可以 小孩子就不可以?
相信大多數的例子 看新聞及社會百態即可 不需贅言
最經典的莫過於我自己眼中 政治高官的"闖紅燈了"...
"在紅燈亮著的街口 大夥都依序停下來了
只有他們一家子 視若無睹 沒命似地闖了過去
當下 當大夥還在目瞪口呆 接著議論紛紛 再覺不可思議 最後回過神時
闖紅燈的 已經不見蹤影了"

有人說: "真不要命 就這樣闖過去!"
旁人回: "誰說他們闖紅燈了 你沒看到交通管制的與護送的嗎?"
路人道: "哪是...別亂說! 這分明是學我們以前台中飆車族的風格... 紅綠燈 參考用的而已!"

這時 我突然又想起高中同學的那支"很籠統"大過
當時大家看似理所當然
其實 只要被鑽個漏洞或巧妙的手法 大過可能是記不成的...

"又有人闖紅燈了 唉!"  有人叫喊著
"在哪裡?" 穿制服的問了...

最後
綠燈亮了

大家又繼續向前走了!

Revenge of Right Brain

by: aloon 10.09.2009

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When I was a kid - growing up in a middle-class family, in the middle of America, in the middle of the 1970s - parents dished out a familiar plate of advice to their children: Get good grades, go to college, and pursue a profession that offers a decent standard of living and perhaps a dollop of prestige. If you were good at math and science, become a doctor. If you were better at English and history, become a lawyer. If blood grossed you out and your verbal skills needed work, become an accountant. Later, as computers appeared on desktops and CEOs on magazine covers, the youngsters who were really good at math and science chose high tech, while others flocked to business school, thinking that success was spelled MBA.

Tax attorneys. Radiologists. Financial analysts. Software engineers. Management guru Peter Drucker gave this cadre of professionals an enduring, if somewhat wonky, name: knowledge workers. These are, he wrote, "people who get paid for putting to work what one learns in school rather than for their physical strength or manual skill." What distinguished members of this group and enabled them to reap society's greatest rewards, was their "ability to acquire and to apply theoretical and analytic knowledge." And any of us could join their ranks. All we had to do was study hard and play by the rules of the meritocratic regime. That was the path to professional success and personal fulfillment.

But a funny thing happened while we were pressing our noses to the grindstone: The world changed. The future no longer belongs to people who can reason with computer-like logic, speed, and precision. It belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind. Today - amid the uncertainties of an economy that has gone from boom to bust to blah - there's a metaphor that explains what's going on. And it's right inside our heads.

Scientists have long known that a neurological Mason-Dixon line cleaves our brains into two regions - the left and right hemispheres. But in the last 10 years, thanks in part to advances in functional magnetic resonance imaging, researchers have begun to identify more precisely how the two sides divide responsibilities. The left hemisphere handles sequence, literalness, and analysis. The right hemisphere, meanwhile, takes care of context, emotional expression, and synthesis. Of course, the human brain, with its 100 billion cells forging 1 quadrillion connections, is breathtakingly complex. The two hemispheres work in concert, and we enlist both sides for nearly everything we do. But the structure of our brains can help explain the contours of our times.

Until recently, the abilities that led to success in school, work, and business were characteristic of the left hemisphere. They were the sorts of linear, logical, analytical talents measured by SATs and deployed by CPAs. Today, those capabilities are still necessary. But they're no longer sufficient. In a world upended by outsourcing, deluged with data, and choked with choices, the abilities that matter most are now closer in spirit to the specialties of the right hemisphere - artistry, empathy, seeing the big picture, and pursuing the transcendent.

Beneath the nervous clatter of our half-completed decade stirs a slow but seismic shift. The Information Age we all prepared for is ending. Rising in its place is what I call the Conceptual Age, an era in which mastery of abilities that we've often overlooked and undervalued marks the fault line between who gets ahead and who falls behind.

To some of you, this shift - from an economy built on the logical, sequential abilities of the Information Age to an economy built on the inventive, empathic abilities of the Conceptual Age - sounds delightful. "You had me at hello!" I can hear the painters and nurses exulting. But to others, this sounds like a crock. "Prove it!" I hear the programmers and lawyers demanding.

OK. To convince you, I'll explain the reasons for this shift, using the mechanistic language of cause and effect.

The effect: the scales tilting in favor of right brain-style thinking. The causes: Asia, automation, and abundance.

Asia
Few issues today spark more controversy than outsourcing. Those squadrons of white-collar workers in India, the Philippines, and China are scaring the bejesus out of software jockeys across North America and Europe. According to Forrester Research, 1 in 9 jobs in the US information technology industry will move overseas by 2010. And it's not just tech work. Visit India's office parks and you'll see chartered accountants preparing American tax returns, lawyers researching American lawsuits, and radiologists reading CAT scans for US hospitals.

The reality behind the alarm is this: Outsourcing to Asia is overhyped in the short term, but underhyped in the long term. We're not all going to lose our jobs tomorrow. (The total number of jobs lost to offshoring so far represents less than 1 percent of the US labor force.) But as the cost of communicating with the other side of the globe falls essentially to zero, as India becomes (by 2010) the country with the most English speakers in the world, and as developing nations continue to mint millions of extremely capable knowledge workers, the professional lives of people in the West will change dramatically. If number crunching, chart reading, and code writing can be done for a lot less overseas and delivered to clients instantly via fiber-optic cable, that's where the work will go.

But these gusts of comparative advantage are blowing away only certain kinds of white-collar jobs - those that can be reduced to a set of rules, routines, and instructions. That's why narrow left-brain work such as basic computer coding, accounting, legal research, and financial analysis is migrating across the oceans. But that's also why plenty of opportunities remain for people and companies doing less routine work - programmers who can design entire systems, accountants who serve as life planners, and bankers expert less in the intricacies of Excel than in the art of the deal. Now that foreigners can do left-brain work cheaper, we in the US must do right-brain work better.

Last century, machines proved they could replace human muscle. This century, technologies are proving they can outperform human left brains - they can execute sequential, reductive, computational work better, faster, and more accurately than even those with the highest IQs. (Just ask chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov.)

Consider jobs in financial services. Stockbrokers who merely execute transactions are history. Online trading services and market makers do such work far more efficiently. The brokers who survived have morphed from routine order-takers to less easily replicated advisers, who can understand a client's broader financial objectives and even the client's emotions and dreams.

Or take lawyers. Dozens of inexpensive information and advice services are reshaping law practice. At CompleteCase.com, you can get an uncontested divorce for $249, less than a 10th of the cost of a divorce lawyer. Meanwhile, the Web is cracking the information monopoly that has long been the source of many lawyers' high incomes and professional mystique. Go to USlegalforms.com and you can download - for the price of two movie tickets - fill-in-the-blank wills, contracts, and articles of incorporation that used to reside exclusively on lawyers' hard drives. Instead of hiring a lawyer for 10 hours to craft a contract, consumers can fill out the form themselves and hire a lawyer for one hour to look it over. Consequently, legal abilities that can't be digitized - convincing a jury or understanding the subtleties of a negotiation - become more valuable.

Even computer programmers may feel the pinch. "In the old days," legendary computer scientist Vernor Vinge has said, "anybody with even routine skills could get a job as a programmer. That isn't true anymore. The routine functions are increasingly being turned over to machines." The result: As the scut work gets offloaded, engineers will have to master different aptitudes, relying more on creativity than competence.

Any job that can be reduced to a set of rules is at risk. If a $500-a-month accountant in India doesn't swipe your accounting job, TurboTax will. Now that computers can emulate left-hemisphere skills, we'll have to rely ever more on our right hemispheres.

Abundance
Our left brains have made us rich. Powered by armies of Drucker's knowledge workers, the information economy has produced a standard of living that would have been unfathomable in our grandparents' youth. Their lives were defined by scarcity. Ours are shaped by abundance. Want evidence? Spend five minutes at Best Buy. Or look in your garage. Owning a car used to be a grand American aspiration. Today, there are more automobiles in the US than there are licensed drivers - which means that, on average, everybody who can drive has a car of their own. And if your garage is also piled with excess consumer goods, you're not alone. Self-storage - a business devoted to housing our extra crap - is now a $17 billion annual industry in the US, nearly double Hollywood's yearly box office take.

But abundance has produced an ironic result. The Information Age has unleashed a prosperity that in turn places a premium on less rational sensibilities - beauty, spirituality, emotion. For companies and entrepreneurs, it's no longer enough to create a product, a service, or an experience that's reasonably priced and adequately functional. In an age of abundance, consumers demand something more. Check out your bathroom. If you're like a few million Americans, you've got a Michael Graves toilet brush or a Karim Rashid trash can that you bought at Target. Try explaining a designer garbage pail to the left side of your brain! Or consider illumination. Electric lighting was rare a century ago, but now it's commonplace. Yet in the US, candles are a $2 billion a year business - for reasons that stretch beyond the logical need for luminosity to a prosperous country's more inchoate desire for pleasure and transcendence.

Liberated by this prosperity but not fulfilled by it, more people are searching for meaning. From the mainstream embrace of such once-exotic practices as yoga and meditation to the rise of spirituality in the workplace to the influence of evangelism in pop culture and politics, the quest for meaning and purpose has become an integral part of everyday life. And that will only intensify as the first children of abundance, the baby boomers, realize that they have more of their lives behind them than ahead. In both business and personal life, now that our left-brain needs have largely been sated, our right-brain yearnings will demand to be fed.

As the forces of Asia, automation, and abundance strengthen and accelerate, the curtain is rising on a new era, the Conceptual Age. If the Industrial Age was built on people's backs, and the Information Age on people's left hemispheres, the Conceptual Age is being built on people's right hemispheres. We've progressed from a society of farmers to a society of factory workers to a society of knowledge workers. And now we're progressing yet again - to a society of creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers, and meaning makers.

But let me be clear: The future is not some Manichaean landscape in which individuals are either left-brained and extinct or right-brained and ecstatic - a land in which millionaire yoga instructors drive BMWs and programmers scrub counters at Chick-fil-A. Logical, linear, analytic thinking remains indispensable. But it's no longer enough.

To flourish in this age, we'll need to supplement our well-developed high tech abilities with aptitudes that are "high concept" and "high touch." High concept involves the ability to create artistic and emotional beauty, to detect patterns and opportunities, to craft a satisfying narrative, and to come up with inventions the world didn't know it was missing. High touch involves the capacity to empathize, to understand the subtleties of human interaction, to find joy in one's self and to elicit it in others, and to stretch beyond the quotidian in pursuit of purpose and meaning.

Developing these high concept, high touch abilities won't be easy for everyone. For some, the prospect seems unattainable. Fear not (or at least fear less). The sorts of abilities that now matter most are fundamentally human attributes. After all, back on the savannah, our caveperson ancestors weren't plugging numbers into spreadsheets or debugging code. But they were telling stories, demonstrating empathy, and designing innovations. These abilities have always been part of what it means to be human. It's just that after a few generations in the Information Age, many of our high concept, high touch muscles have atrophied. The challenge is to work them back into shape.

Want to get ahead today? Forget what your parents told you. Instead, do something foreigners can't do cheaper. Something computers can't do faster. And something that fills one of the nonmaterial, transcendent desires of an abundant age. In other words, go right, young man and woman, go right.

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[via] Wired.com | Adapted from A Whole New Mind: Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age, copyright  by Daniel H. Pink, to be published in March by Riverhead Books. Printed with permission of the publisher.
Contributing editor Daniel H. Pink (dp@danpink.com) wrote about Gross National Happiness in issue 12.12.

從前有個書生,和未婚妻約好在某年某月某日結婚

到那一天,未婚妻卻嫁給了別人。書生受此打擊,一病不起。

這時,路過一游方僧人,從懷裡摸出一面鏡子叫書生看……

書生看到茫茫大海,一名遇害的女子一絲不掛地躺在海灘上。

路過一人,看一眼,搖搖頭,走了。又路過一人,

將衣服脫下,給女屍蓋上,走了。

再路過一人,過去,挖個坑,小心翼翼把屍體掩埋了。

僧人解釋道,那具海灘上的女屍,就是你未婚妻的前世。

你是第二個路過的人,曾給過他一件衣服。

她今生和你戀,只為還你一個情。

但是她最終要報答一生一世的人,是最後那個把她掩埋的人,

那人就是他現在的丈夫。。書生大悟。

前世,究竟是誰埋的你?

孟婆說:“行路的人,喝碗孟婆湯解解渴。”口渴的人心急的喝了。

於是,那個前世埋他們的人,在他們頭腦中漸漸模糊了。

他們開始驚惶的四處張望,妄圖在茫茫人海中尋找今生的愛人。

“眾裡尋它千百度,驀然回首,那人卻在燈火闌珊處

”其實,你攜起他的手時,就是前世殘存的記憶在提醒你了,

前世埋你的人,就是你身邊與你相濡以沫的愛人啊。

月光下的大海,泛著粼粼的波。 和你的愛人去看看月光下的大海吧,

在大海的最深處,也許就藏著你前生的記憶呢。

三生石上的舊精魂,真的不是一個美麗的傳說麼?

與前世埋過我的愛人,攜手在銀色的沙灘,

那該是今生最完美的一種幸福了吧

那誰又是上輩子葬你的人哦?每個人都等到了嗎

 

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