Tag: Identity
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Your Soul and Sex
I heard a speaker this week give a talk about our sexual identity. I haven’t written much about sexual identity – mainly because I haven’t thought much about it, but this speaker said so many cool things about it. The one idea that I walked away with that I’ve been…
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The YouTube Trap
Have you ever fell for that YouTube trap of watching more videos than you should? Come on. You know what I’m talking about. Last night I fell for that trap. I was looking for a song, and listened to the original. Then I wanted to hear a live version of…
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Practice Your Identity
I went on a walk today with my dogs at our normal park that we go for walks at. There’s a huge field there and there are always games and practice at the fields. After tonight’s walk, I was hit with the idea that these kids – soccer today –…
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Social Networks
When we think of a social network – we tend to think about Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. But social networks have existed for centuries. Your family is a social network. Your church is a social network. Your classmates are a part of your social network. The social networks online and…
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Commercials About You
I hardly ever watch commercials. My DVR makes that possible, but we happened to be watching Man Vs. Food – live tonight so we had to endure the commercials. Two commercials stood out because it happened one right after the other. The first was Holiday Inn where the tag line…
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Mark Zuckerberg and Identity
Zuckerberg is the CEO of Facebook. There’s a movie that will be coming out about him and Facebook. Many have talked about him. You have heard them make fun of how young he is or how he sweats profusely when he does interviews. It’s ironic to me that he’s running…
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What the Shows You Watch Say About You
This is another one of those posts – where I don’t know the answer. I would be interested though in knowing the answer so if you know the answer, please help me understand. I have not done the study, but I would assume that the shows that we watch reveal…
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Emotional Work
I heard that phrase today. A girl that I was listening to was talking about the guys that she dates and how she is more attracted to guys that have done their emotional work. It stood out to me. The first question that I asked was – what does that…
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Nonconscious Awareness
We talked about this in a class today. It’s easy to think of the conscious things in our lives – because it’s in conscious awareness for us. We can easily explain it to someone else because we are conscious of it. But there’s a whole other side of our consciousness…
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Print Media
Are you still reading print media? My wife has a subscription to a magazine so we still get it. My father-in-law still gets the paper on the weekend. For the most part though, we consume media online. Whether it’s Twitter or the 30 minutes that you spend at work –…
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Lem Usita ’95 and Lem Usita ’99
Those are 2 identity markers for me. It stood out to me when I wrote it in an e mail this morning. I guess technically I could add Lem Usita ’91, and I hope to add Lem Usita ’10 as another identity marker. I don’t know why it fascinates me…
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