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killthemonotony  ·  3113 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Your formative years, your productive years , your reflective years,

I've been on this website for a total of ~27 minutes now and every post and the comments to follow are making me realise just how often I leave my brain in auto-pilot.

It's very unsettling.





lil  ·  3113 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Welcome to hubski. Tell us more about yourself.

killthemonotony  ·  3113 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Thank-you! Well, I'm in the medical field so if I ever post something it will likely be medicine-related. I actually found Hubski in amongst a list of "50 websites to waste your time on" (clearly having a slow Sunday) and I believe it is going to be just that, minus the "waste".

thenewgreen  ·  3112 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Welcome! What do you do in medicine? We have some PhD's, MD's and nurses kicking around the site. My wife is an MD so I'm constantly around those in the medical profession.

I look forward to seeing your posts. Followed!

If you have any questions about the site, feel free to ask me.

someguyfromcanada  ·  3112 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Absolutely off topic but I am a stalker apparently and just looked at your profile and saw a link to the Primer page. Good stuff that I had not seen before.

Has hubski ever has DMCA takedown request or any other "official" contact about personal or IP information? I am a licensed professional and am very reluctant to post anything related to my work due to paranoia about professional liability.

thenewgreen  ·  3112 days ago  ·  link  ·  

We have not had any such requests. We will always be transparent if any such things occur.

someguyfromcanada  ·  3112 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Awesome. Thank you.

kleinbl00  ·  3112 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The difference between navel-gazing and reflection is action.

lil  ·  3112 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Exactly. Interesting that you'd put it that way. Your comment about what to do when one is dumped is about first - reflecting - and then using the information you get from the reflection for action rather than wallowing in reflection. It's worth posting again right here:

We've discussed reflection before and its relative value.

kleinbl00  ·  3111 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm still really uncomfortable with your definitions of "reflection" and "mediation." To me, you're drawing boxes around experiences and defining ways in which they can and cannot be enjoyed and creating arbitrary guidelines for which they may or may not be allowed to provoke thought. I also really dislike the fact that not only are "experience" and "reflection" called out as discrete things, there's a percentage assigned to them and a value judgement assigned to that percentage.

lil  ·  3111 days ago  ·  link  ·  

kb - When I have world enough and time I will either rewrite or delete the original post. I've created a BINARY in that post and I want to reject the binary (right OftenBen).

May reflection lead to action and transformation. And vice versa. Maybe the two can unite: REFLACTION -- as in "This is a time of serious reflaction!"

kb, I'm experience a brave new world of self-reinvention. I sent the very busy thenewgreen a version of my state of the lil address that I prepared for hubski. May or may not post.

I appreciate you. Hmmm maybe tonight is a possible IRC. Of course you are in a baby-feeding bed-putting time zone.

kleinbl00  ·  3111 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Perhaps it's a difference of what "reflection" means to us - there's an implied "what can be learned from this?" in reflection to me. Reflection is the act of investigating something internally in order to achieve a better understanding. Understanding is the single most important thing for changing one's regard for the world without investing capital or effort. So when I see "reflection" I see a guided internal effort towards improving something - something internal, something external, an understanding, an appreciation, an approach, an effort.

I'm officially done with the show for another year which means my evenings are my own again, which means I'm spending as much time as I can with the fambly. I may be able to make an appearance, but it will necessarily be brief.

Good luck on yoru self-reinventing adventures. I appreciate you, too.

lil  ·  3111 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I agree -- words, words. You mean reflaction - as in the two are bound somehow (as they should be). I had never associated action so closely with reflection -- but I think I will now -- and since I force my students to #reflectbetterdammit I will tell them your definition above exactly as stated. Copying it now.

kleinbl00  ·  3111 days ago  ·  link  ·  

My condolences to your students.

lil  ·  3111 days ago  ·  link  ·  

yeah, they have it rough!