Comments on: process vs. completion http://www.ellenloves.com/blogging/2007/09/13/process-vs-completion/ food, fun, and family Sat, 05 Jul 2008 01:52:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 By: Wendy http://www.ellenloves.com/blogging/2007/09/13/process-vs-completion/#comment-67 Wendy Fri, 21 Sep 2007 03:00:17 +0000 http://www.ellenloves.com/blogging/2007/09/13/process-vs-completion/#comment-67 Enjoy the process...what a concept. I think it is our culture to do things as fast as possible. Look at all of the conveniences that are at our fingertips to make the process faster to get to the end of whatever task we are doing sooner so we can get to the next one (and sometimes that is not a bad thing). We are no longer in an age of where we seem to take the time to "stop and smell the roses". I think most of us take on too much and sometimes we expect our children to do the same. Look at what we do to them by putting them into as many activites as we can possibly jam into their days so that they can become productive well-rounded adults in the future. What happened to just hanging out? Maybe we should all make more effort to as you say "enjoy the process" of what we do on a day-to-day basis and not rush through life because it will end sooner than we think. Thanks for making me stop and think about this one. Enjoy the process…what a concept. I think it is our culture to do things as fast as possible. Look at all of the conveniences that are at our fingertips to make the process faster to get to the end of whatever task we are doing sooner so we can get to the next one (and sometimes that is not a bad thing). We are no longer in an age of where we seem to take the time to “stop and smell the roses”. I think most of us take on too much and sometimes we expect our children to do the same. Look at what we do to them by putting them into as many activites as we can possibly jam into their days so that they can become productive well-rounded adults in the future. What happened to just hanging out?

Maybe we should all make more effort to as you say “enjoy the process” of what we do on a day-to-day basis and not rush through life because it will end sooner than we think.

Thanks for making me stop and think about this one.

]]> By: Yer Bro http://www.ellenloves.com/blogging/2007/09/13/process-vs-completion/#comment-167 Yer Bro Sat, 06 Oct 2007 08:11:04 +0000 http://www.ellenloves.com/blogging/2007/09/13/process-vs-completion/#comment-167 Damn, and I always thought it was my "good looks" that got me out of trouble! But seriously, I think I'd have a tough time with convincing my kids to just "enjoy the process of learning" simply for the sake of learning. For me, to get motivated to *really* learn anything, I had to see some point in it beyond passing the test, getting a good (enough) mark, or just jumping through hoop X. I mean, who really cares how many kilojoules it takes to push a block up a 45 degree angle with X amount of friction? Unless I want to be a physics teacher, that bit of trivia is taking up valuable space in my brain! Damn, and I always thought it was my “good looks” that got me out of trouble!

But seriously, I think I’d have a tough time with convincing my kids to just “enjoy the process of learning” simply for the sake of learning. For me, to get motivated to *really* learn anything, I had to see some point in it beyond passing the test, getting a good (enough) mark, or just jumping through hoop X. I mean, who really cares how many kilojoules it takes to push a block up a 45 degree angle with X amount of friction? Unless I want to be a physics teacher, that bit of trivia is taking up valuable space in my brain!

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