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A professor in Princeton University did an experiment which is called "Candle Problem".
In Candle Problem, people are given a candle and tacks in a receptacle and a lighter.
Then, they have to light a candle not to get the wax dripped onto a table.
The solution is to put the candle on a receptacle and fix it on a wall with tacks.
But people often take 5 or 10 minutes to solve the problem, because in the receptacle, there are tacks, and they tend to consider it as a receptacle for tacks and don't use it for a receptacle for the wax.

He gathered students and divided them into 2groups.

He said to the first group like this:
"I want to time you and know the average time for typical people to take to solve this problem."

He also said to the other one like this:
"I'm gonna give you 10 dollars if you are in the top 25 percent of the fastest times, and you get 50 dollars if you are the fastest of everyone."

The result of the experiment is, against what most people might expect, that the average time of the second group is 3 minutes longer than the first one.

It wasn't an accident. It has replicated for 40 years.

It shows that extrinsic motivators, which most companies give to their workers, doesn't work better than intrinsic motivators.
It shows clearly that there is a mismatch between what science knows and what business does, and it's time to rethink about it.


Posted at Mon Jan 02 12:19:41 UTC 2012
]]> http://lang-8.com/135449/journals/1249768 http://lang-8.com/135449/journals/1249768 Champ Mon Jan 02 12:19:41 UTC 2012
Afterwards, he took some small stones out of his bag and filled the bottle with them. He shook it to fill it up, then he asked again if it was full or not. The students said it was full.

Then he filled it with some sand and he asked same question again. The students said it was full that time.

However, he took a can of beer and pour it into the bottle. Beer was soaking into the sand. The students couldn't do anything but laughing.

'So', he said after they became quiet. 'Your life is like this bottle. And the big stones are most important things for you such as your family, friends, and health, etc. If you lost everything except them, your life would be still full. The small stones are other important things. Your work, house, car, etc. The sand is the other things, I mean, not important things at all.'

'If you fill a bottle with sand', he continued talking. 'The bottle cannot have a space to put stones. Your life is the same thing. If you spend your time and labor doing worthless things, you cannot have time to do important things for you. What is important is to think about important things for your happiness. Going out with your girlfriend, taking a time to play with your kids in the future. You can always take time to spend working, having a party. Think about stones. It is really important thing, because the other things are just sand.'

Then, a student raised his hand and asked what beer meant.
The professor smiled and answered, 'It is a good question. I wanted to show that if you feel your life is full, you always have a time to drink beer.'


Posted at Sun Aug 28 15:08:07 UTC 2011
]]> http://lang-8.com/135449/journals/1073803 http://lang-8.com/135449/journals/1073803 Champ Sun Aug 28 15:08:07 UTC 2011
There are 3 important points.

First, when you wanna be a leader, you should have enough courage to be ridiculed.
Remember, all things that now are very popular in the world were just "strange" at that time they started.

Second, a thing you want to achieve must be easy to follow.
The most important thing to become a leader is to have followers.
So remember, you can't be a leader without followers.

Finally, if you find a strange person who you think is doing great thing, you should follow and cheer up him/her.
This is because if you wanna make people your followers, you should understand follower's feelings and make bonds among you and others.


Therefore, if you wanna be a leader, you should understand these points, and make an act as soon as possible.

Thank you.


p.s.
How do you think to be a leader and make a movement?

Posted at Thu Jun 30 17:29:59 UTC 2011
]]> http://lang-8.com/135449/journals/994037 http://lang-8.com/135449/journals/994037 Champ Thu Jun 30 17:29:59 UTC 2011
At that time, I was in the office which is on 9th floor of the building located in Shibuya, Tokyo.
At first, it shook little so I didn't care much about it because it's common to occur a little earthquake in Japan.
However, it gradually got bigger, I found my co-workers' face getting anxious, and the thing which is said that Tokyo would have a very big earthquake in near future came across in my head. The boss said to all workers "Hide yourself under your desk!!", and all of them except the boss and a brave worker who still stood up because he thought he should keep shelves from falling down hid under it.
During the peak of the earthquake, I could do nothing but grab legs of my desk desperately. I heard crashes of falling down a printer, files, and many things on the desks.
I felt I was gonna die.

After getting calmed down, we went out of the office and walked down the stairs, not using an elevator because it's very dangerous to use it after the earthquake, nobody knows when it would become again.


To be continued...
(I'll write a continuation tomorrow.)

Posted at Sat Mar 12 14:37:35 UTC 2011
]]> http://lang-8.com/135449/journals/845211 http://lang-8.com/135449/journals/845211 Champ Sat Mar 12 14:37:35 UTC 2011 Today, I'd like to report it's story.
※spoiler included

There is a man who can time travel. He can go back to the past when he gazes at a picture and remember the day when it was taken, as if he could go into the picture.

There happens bad things around him.
After an accident, he goes back to the past just previous the accident to change the past.
Though he tries to make he and his friends' future better, next accidents is getting worse and worse.

After all, he decides to change everything around him, so he goes back to the day when he and his girlfriend were children and they played outside together.(they were childhood friends.)
And, he says to her that he hates her, then they are away from each other.
This is because he thought that going out with her caused all bad things.

Of course, in fact he really loved her.


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It really made me sad. But it's a great movie.
I recommend you to watch it.

Posted at Thu Dec 23 11:37:56 UTC 2010
]]> http://lang-8.com/135449/journals/738648 http://lang-8.com/135449/journals/738648 Champ Thu Dec 23 11:37:56 UTC 2010
Do you think it actually happens?

I agree with this idea.
Of course, there is no proof that it really happens scientifically, but whether it happens or not depends on how patients feel.
I think even if the transplanted organ is not the heart, patients feel something strange, because another person's organ is actually in their body.

Although I always don't believe in things which are not scientific, I believe in people's emotions even if it's not scientific. This is because no one can explain what "love" is, but all people can feel and have felt "love".
That's why I believe in what many patients say.(They feel they were transplanted personality with the organ.)

What do you think about it?

I'm sorry it's too long.
But I'm forward to seeing your kind corrections!
Thank you for reading my opinion!

Posted at Tue Dec 21 16:42:15 UTC 2010
]]> http://lang-8.com/135449/journals/736741 http://lang-8.com/135449/journals/736741 Champ Tue Dec 21 16:42:15 UTC 2010