Inglês Empresarial

Wrong blog - Right thought

Those who had subscribed the blog by e-mail, might received the post “an opportunity to talk sex”, and had some difficulties to associate it to the Ingles Empresarial context. Actually it was not conceived to this blog, but we can always find something creative and good in it. Although I don’t understand nothing about online communities, I can do a bridge with other aspects related to school.

Starting with the title, I see the word “sex” as a metaphor. Is not “talk about sex” but “talk sex”. So “sex” here is more like a way of dealing with things, an social behavior, rather than the physical act that all might have thought. It is seeking for what one can get and not what one can give. To wait to be given rather than looking for ways to give. Is like criticizing the other, instead of looking for one’s owns mistakes. Unfortunetly this “sexual” vision not only happens in online communities, it happens everywere. For instance, we can see students that are only waiting to have a good mark copying and pasting internet texts, rather than thinking in ways of giving something useful to them and to their colleagues. Another example is in the oral presentations. Some spent all the classes criticizing the teacher, but when they are presenting something, they do even worst mistakes than the teacher!

Gladly, there is the “love” vision. Is not a pinky colored philosophy, but one hard path were one must keep going even without positive feedback , keep experimenting and keep getting it wrong in order to make it better. And one have to keep his eye on the ball and remember the bigger reasons why he is doing it. Most of this work is invisible to people. Specially to those who keep their attention focused only in the school marks, and what is the interest in talking with this or that colleague, rather than learning something useful to life, and having the sensitivity, persistence and imagination to deal with people and problems in a harmonious way.

These are the two main ideas that I can get from the post, it would be nice to see if other students could share their oppinion about it too.

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posted by Eduardo Gaspar @ 9:53 AM