2005-05-13: What is Dark Energy?

[Robert]

I have completed the editing of the chat session transcript and have uploaded it to the first post of this thread. If you want to know what happened downlaod the script and read at your leisure. I have corrected for spelling, improved formatting, removed double posts, and added narrator comments. Also, just in case you don't know this, all chat session threads have a chat transcript available for download in the first post of each thread.

Regards,
--Robert

[Robert]

I read an interesting article in a scietific Spanish magazine about self esteem and motivation: they end up proving that it was all crap: it doesn't really relate to many things, and probably is too fluctuative to controll as many companies tr to with their workers. You will say, why am I tellink you this? In one of the studies, they looked at the reactions of two different classes in high school (11grade and 12grade). The people who failed in the first class (the one with smaller people) ussually gave the guilt to external reasons (the exam was too hard, this teacher hates me.....), whiles the one in the second class (the older ones) accepted it wss their problem and fault. This prove that self esteem has to do with age and matureness. Youa re saying it's my priorities wats wrong, don't you think its un-mature? (don0't take it too sireously). You should think that here in Spaion and other Zones in Europe it is a really bad time (6 in the morning!!!).

I heard of a study a while back comparing different country's math education in regards to self-esteem and performance. It seemed like the countries with students having the highest self-esteem had the lower performance. It would appear that self-esteem is not always based on reality. This happens when you do bad work yet you're told that you're great. Makes me wonder what ideas/beliefs I have, feelings/emotions I have that are not based on reality, but based on questionable stories I've been told, cultural influences, human psychology, illusions in perceptions, subliminal messages, etc. I've got some other disturbing thoughts about all this, but I better save it for another thread.

I'll be looking for you at the next chat session.

Regards,
--Robert