Comments on: RCP - When the Online and Offline World Collide http://thereasoner.com/articles/life/rcp-when-the-online-and-offline-world-collide Analysis of Reason - Finding out the reasons for the insanity in the universe Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:25:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Bes http://thereasoner.com/articles/life/rcp-when-the-online-and-offline-world-collide/comment-page-1#comment-32312 Bes Wed, 23 May 2007 19:58:31 +0000 http://thereasoner.com/blog/rcp-when-the-online-and-offline-world-collide/#comment-32312 You have a good point about RSS feeds. Human beings want more and more, and thus the feed subscribers or even number of commentors that we find satisfying today will end up being unsatisfactory to us tomorrow or later in time. Well, to achieve success, we need to know what exactly we are achieving. People don't aim for success. They aim for certain elements in life. A person can fail at everything in life, and still feel succesful because of the fact that they are living a life. Whether or not aiming for certain elements is good or bad compared to aiming for the "success" feeling is a topic for another day. Most of the success theories are being influenced, specially online, by the idea of making money. People need to factor in everything, as realistically, everything matters: health, concept of relationships, money, food, home, etc. You have a good point about RSS feeds. Human beings want more and more, and thus the feed subscribers or even number of commentors that we find satisfying today will end up being unsatisfactory to us tomorrow or later in time.

Well, to achieve success, we need to know what exactly we are achieving. People don’t aim for success. They aim for certain elements in life. A person can fail at everything in life, and still feel succesful because of the fact that they are living a life. Whether or not aiming for certain elements is good or bad compared to aiming for the “success” feeling is a topic for another day.

Most of the success theories are being influenced, specially online, by the idea of making money. People need to factor in everything, as realistically, everything matters: health, concept of relationships, money, food, home, etc.

]]> By: inspirationbit http://thereasoner.com/articles/life/rcp-when-the-online-and-offline-world-collide/comment-page-1#comment-32228 inspirationbit Wed, 23 May 2007 07:16:00 +0000 http://thereasoner.com/blog/rcp-when-the-online-and-offline-world-collide/#comment-32228 Wow, looks like we're getting another The Reasoner here. It's not enough that I'm getting all those thought-provoking posts/questions from Bes, now Ronald is making me think before I write a comment. :-) I agree with Bes - success is a relative thing. And also I think, it's a temporary feeling, or at least it should be temporary. Today I may find it to be quite a success if my RSS feed count reaches #100, but tomorrow I would want it to go up to #1000, and then to #10K, etc. We should never bathe in our success and always strive for more, for another challenge. I don't mean that we should be greedy, not at all. We should however always move forward in life, or at least, try to. And Ronald, please, get a life and go green - preserve energy by turning off the computer at night and use other alarms to wake up in the morning :-) Oh, and to answer Ronald's question: Is it possible to achieve success in both the online and offline world simultaneously? I think everything is possible as long as we really want it and we know exactly what we want. Wow, looks like we’re getting another The Reasoner here. It’s not enough that I’m getting all those thought-provoking posts/questions from Bes, now Ronald is making me think before I write a comment. :-)
I agree with Bes - success is a relative thing. And also I think, it’s a temporary feeling, or at least it should be temporary. Today I may find it to be quite a success if my RSS feed count reaches #100, but tomorrow I would want it to go up to #1000, and then to #10K, etc.

We should never bathe in our success and always strive for more, for another challenge. I don’t mean that we should be greedy, not at all. We should however always move forward in life, or at least, try to.

And Ronald, please, get a life and go green - preserve energy by turning off the computer at night and use other alarms to wake up in the morning :-)
Oh, and to answer Ronald’s question: Is it possible to achieve success in both the online and offline world simultaneously?
I think everything is possible as long as we really want it and we know exactly what we want.

]]> By: Bes http://thereasoner.com/articles/life/rcp-when-the-online-and-offline-world-collide/comment-page-1#comment-32175 Bes Tue, 22 May 2007 22:57:19 +0000 http://thereasoner.com/blog/rcp-when-the-online-and-offline-world-collide/#comment-32175 Nice post Ronald. The online and offline worlds do indeed collide, since we are all still trying to control the online lives by treating it differently than the offline life, and trying to be in command more. We are doing random things and anything possible since it seems, to many, that the online world is to be treated differently. Success is success, though as you pointed out, perception of success is for many people something a bit different than success itself. Success is also relative, though when it comes to control, money and influence [power], many people tend to have similar views that the combination of those 3 means success. I sometimes turn off the computer speakers when I go to sleep, or mute Skype itself. ;) Nice post Ronald. The online and offline worlds do indeed collide, since we are all still trying to control the online lives by treating it differently than the offline life, and trying to be in command more. We are doing random things and anything possible since it seems, to many, that the online world is to be treated differently.

Success is success, though as you pointed out, perception of success is for many people something a bit different than success itself. Success is also relative, though when it comes to control, money and influence [power], many people tend to have similar views that the combination of those 3 means success.

I sometimes turn off the computer speakers when I go to sleep, or mute Skype itself. ;)

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