I’ve been reading about all types of Reinforcement (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforcement) and particularly Positive and Negative Reinforcement. The behavioural researcher B.F. Skinner’s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.F._Skinner) definition of “reinforcement as creating situations that a person likes or removing a situation he doesn’t like, and punishment as removing a situation a person likes or setting up one he doesn’t like” is [...]
“Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defence against one’s own despised and unwanted feelings. And the fountainhead of all contempt, all discrimination, is the more or less conscious, uncontrolled and secret exercise of power over the child by the adult, which is tolerated by society (except in the case of murder or [...]
“I’ve avoided most addictions, but the Internet got me because it became addictive while I was using it.” Paul Graham [1] “Doctor, doctor I need a break from The Internets” is often a chant that rings around my head. On some days I’m overwhelmed and struggle to concentrate on the important things. My mind a [...]