The art of multitasking on unproductive tasks/ L'art de combiner des activitées non productives

This is an american major passtime...

 Voici un passe-temps americain majeur...



Prenez mon collocataire par exemple:

a l'instant meme ou vous lisez ceci (ou du moins il y a une tres grosse probabilité, c'est demontré apres)
-il est sur son ordinateur a jouer son jeu adictif ou il parle a ses collegues (si, si je vous jure... je les entends et tout et y'a meme une fille),
-il regarde CSI a la tele (Les experts: Las vegas, pour la cousine qui devait se demander de quelle serie cela pouvait s'agir),
-il mange (hamburguer bien sur... plus cliche que ça tu meurs. et apres ils se demandent d'ou on les sort les stéréotipes),
-il planifie son agenda pour demain (non, ce n'est pas encore fini)
-et en plus il ecrit des texto sur son portable (le meilleur pour la fin).

Il faut penser a ajouter les allers retours au toilette ou il garde son portable (normal) mais il suit toujours le fil de ce qu'y a a la tele (moins... :s) tout cela en criant a son ordinateur si un de ses ciber-collegues lui parle.

Il est aussi a contempler qu'il fait ceci tout le temps libre qu'il a et sachant que s'il n'est pas en cours il est ici et qu'il a 14heures de cours par semaine, cela fait quand meme un gros pourcentage du temps.

Quand je pense a tout ce qu'il fait dans la journee je me sens tellement nul... tellement inneficace... quand je pense a son jeu, a ce qu'y a la tele, qu'il parle qu'avec sa fiancee au portable et qu'il mange que de la bouffe americaine... eh ben je me dis que j'ai bien de la chance!

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Pour ceux qui ont eut la fleme de lire tout le charabia la haut, voici la version graphique:

Mon colloc est bien bien plus rondelet mais je pense que cela transmet bien l'idee!






 Vous la voulez plus artistique? eh beh voila:

Passionate entrepreneurship/ Passion et entreprenariat

Today, on the Entrepreneurial issues class: A speaker presented his experience... He left his job as a university teacher in a MAJOR US university to start a company in order to push his research discoveries forward through regulations processes in order to get it on the market.

His reason for doing it: Humanitarian reasons or as he said "The results were just too promising to just let them sleep in the darkness of a university laboratory."

The results he was talking about were experimental proofs that this technology could, through drug delivery, make possible NEURAL REGENERATION. Personally, being kind of a scientist, I can tell you that this is the Holy Grail of regenerative neuroscience... The only thing that struck me was the fact that even though the results were promising, they didn't seem conclusive enough to give birth to a useful medical technology.


So here is our guy: Determined and really knowledgeable in his field like those people that you can guess, even by their manners, have the highest intellectual education. He had this behavior of a really smart person... maybe too smart for everyone else. It was clear to be seen, and if you couldn't see it was to be felt, on his way of speaking and the ideas he transmitted throughout the presentation. Nevertheless, he looked lost, had this empty look that morally exhausted people have. He had the attitude of the men determined to do great things no matter the cost... in fact, he described what his point of view on prices to pay in life:

"You haven’t yet paid the highest price you will be called on to make"

He looked passionate, he looked smart, he looked determined and he looked sad, but above all he looked consumed and worn...

[This made me realize a couple of things about human will and about perception. I hope this works out for you too...]