With the world of technology booming, sometimes it’s hard to keep up with all of the new things out there. Advancements in every technological field seem to come out on a daily basis. One such advancement has actually been out for awhile. The SD card is a handy little device that has the capability to improve your life and make it easier. What exactly is an SD card and what is it used for? Let’s look at the facts.
An SD card stands for a secure digital card. SD is a non-volatile form of memory. This means that even when it doesn’t have power going to it, it can still store your files. This makes the card very flexible and it can be used in a variety of ways. SD cards were first marketed in 1999 by Sandisk, Panasonic, and Toshiba. These industry giants agreed to adopt this technology and make it available to the masses. The SD card became very popular and many people have used one over the years.
The most popular use for an SD card is in cameras. They make sharing photos on a digital camera extremely easy. With most SD cards you can store hundreds of photos before you have to clean it off. The great thing about SD cards is that you can simply take it out of your camera and stick it directly into your computer. You can then remove the pictures and store them on your computer or on a CD. This makes your photo storage capacity virtually limitless. You no longer have to get film developed in order to keep a picture. Just take it off of the SD card and put in onto your hard drive. This opened up a world of possibilities for photo enthusiasts and made things more flexible to deal with.
After the SD card took the world by storm, it has experienced a few growing pains along the way. With the popularity, an increase in options has presented itself. More companies make multiple sizes of the SD card. While it may increase performance and memory, it also has managed to confuse many customers. The cards look the same and are the same shape. However, they might actually be a different size than you need for your camera. This has created compatibility issues from device to device. This means that before you invest in an SD card, make sure it is the one you need. Don’t buy one that isn’t going to fit your device. If you do, you might end up becoming frustrated like many others who have purchased the wrong size of SD card.
Overall, SD cards have revolutionized the industry. You can store a lot of information on a tiny little card that will easily fit in your pocket. This allows you to take vast amounts of information and photos with you on the go. Regardless of where you’re at, you never have to worry about leaving your photos at home. Just pick out the right SD card for you.
Saturday, November 1, 2008
The Financial Crisis and Emotional Intelligence – What it Teaches us About Our Romantic Relationships
You may be wondering why I am discussing the financial crisis in a newsletter about relationships! Don’t worry, I have not lost the plot… what is happening at the moment in the world of banking can be related back to some fundamental emotional problems and the way that we try to compensate for these through materialism. We can therefore learn a great deal about our relationships and how to avoid the equivalent to the credit crunch in our personal lives.
The problems we have seen in the financial world have affected us all. We will all pay a price for the imbalances that have been allowed to develop around excessive amounts of unsecured borrowing. In short we have been living way beyond our means and the system has caught up with us. Somehow we thought that wealth and material success would make us happy. Perhaps we thought that a bigger and better house or flashier car would be the answer. We haven’t notice it, but the developing word has been paying a price for our greed for many years and now we must also face up to reality.
We can use the Psychology of Vision model to understand what has gone wrong – in fact it has been predicting the sort of problems we are facing now for years. We can understand them as an example of Independence. As individuals we become Independent to avoid being Dependent on other people for our success and happiness. Underlying this is a subconscious decision to never rely on another person again so that we cannot be let down and hurt as we were in the past. This fear of dependence comes from our earliest experiences in our original families whenever bonding is disrupted. In such situations we often take on guilt and develop low self-esteem for having failed significant people in the family – usually our parents and siblings.
Rather than feel our guilt and sense of failure we decide to avoid such close relationships with people and at the same time suppress our emotions so that we can never feel that dependent again. In work and life we will begin to replace the intimacy and love within close relationships with money and material goods. We try to control others to bring us the material success that we want and to make sure that our fear and guilt is never triggered through failure. Everything we do to achieve success involves things outside us rather than trying to find contentment within – this is the crux of the problem and has led to the credit crunch.
Any early successes as an Independent just encourages us to greater Independence – it seems to be the strategy for happiness. The more we get, in terms of money, power and influence, the happier we conclude that we will be. This is what has happened in a collective way in our society. We have used our material wealth to distract us from the inner quest – both emotionally and spiritually. We have assumed that we can succeed without emotionally meaningful, intimate relationships and have used materialism to distract us from the need to heal our fears and insecurities. The economic growth in the last 10-15 years has allowed us to maintain the illusion that we can borrow and spend our way to happiness.
This Independence has created some very unpleasant behaviours. Our Independent ego’s can be terribly selfish and greedy. We may criticise the bankers for their obscene bonuses, but the truth is that many of us have invested in what was a burgeoning housing market or searched out the most lucrative investment returns. I have had to eat humble pie myself as I find my savings frozen in an Icelandic bank! The reason we can act in such a greedy way is because Independence destroys empathy. With our emotions suppressed we stop feeling the consequences of our selfish behaviour and actions. We stop caring about other people and just look after number one. This is how the banking industry took such ridiculous risks – they had become blind to the consequences of their actions and in any case knew that somebody else would bail them out if it all went wrong. Of course for every winner in a commercial deal there is always a loser. Most of us would rather not think about the people who suffer. Even the plant has taken a hit - our rampant industrialisation may have made our lives more comfortable but the environment is picking up the bill.
So what does this teach us about our relationships? Independence always creates problems for us. As we separate and create an emotional distance in our relationships we stop feeling the full range of our emotions and when we do this we lose empathy. The worst thing of all is that we become blind to the people around us and their problems – we may not notice that our partner is hurting and needs our help. Instead we will make everything about us. We will look for external gratification and seek every more exciting rewards at work and in our personal life – but fail to address the growing problems in our relationships.
Ultimately though we cannot continue with such Independent behaviour forever – it catches up with us with stress and burn-out or the mid-life crisis catches up with us. In the Psychology of Vision model we reach the Dead Zone. Our relationships begin to fail and we are thrust back into our feelings of Dependence that we had defended so vigourously. The parallel in the financial and commercial world is exactly what we are seeing now. The pack of cards that is built around Independent corporations comes crashing down and we stare failure in the face. The very fear that drove us into Independence is now realised. This is the problem with an Independent strategy – it brings about the very thing that it is supposed to protect us from. In our relationships we become afraid of intimacy and the full expression of our emotions - both positive and negative. At best, we end up living half a life and cannot feel the joy and freedom that true partnership can bring. At worst we see a credit crunch in our relationships – not this time about money, but about a bankruptcy of love.
Let us hope that the current problems in the financial world are an opportunity to move to more Partnership and cooperation. Everything that happens to us both good and bad can be seen as a learning opportunity. We can re-build the banking sector as an industry that is emotionally intelligent and really cares about people. It would be in service to the people of the world rather than in competition with it. Perhaps this is somewhat idealistic give the egotistical track record of man, but at least we can choose to live in Partnership within our personal relationships. We can recognise the dangers of Independence and move towards people with open hearts. By feeling our emotions and communicating and healing our fears we can form much better, sustainable relationships, which then become a model for the people around us and for business.
Most of us are facing financial worries with the credit crunch. This article discusses the causes of these problems and compares them to our romantic relationships. By making parallels it provides us with some pointers to how we might improve our relationships.
The problems we have seen in the financial world have affected us all. We will all pay a price for the imbalances that have been allowed to develop around excessive amounts of unsecured borrowing. In short we have been living way beyond our means and the system has caught up with us. Somehow we thought that wealth and material success would make us happy. Perhaps we thought that a bigger and better house or flashier car would be the answer. We haven’t notice it, but the developing word has been paying a price for our greed for many years and now we must also face up to reality.
We can use the Psychology of Vision model to understand what has gone wrong – in fact it has been predicting the sort of problems we are facing now for years. We can understand them as an example of Independence. As individuals we become Independent to avoid being Dependent on other people for our success and happiness. Underlying this is a subconscious decision to never rely on another person again so that we cannot be let down and hurt as we were in the past. This fear of dependence comes from our earliest experiences in our original families whenever bonding is disrupted. In such situations we often take on guilt and develop low self-esteem for having failed significant people in the family – usually our parents and siblings.
Rather than feel our guilt and sense of failure we decide to avoid such close relationships with people and at the same time suppress our emotions so that we can never feel that dependent again. In work and life we will begin to replace the intimacy and love within close relationships with money and material goods. We try to control others to bring us the material success that we want and to make sure that our fear and guilt is never triggered through failure. Everything we do to achieve success involves things outside us rather than trying to find contentment within – this is the crux of the problem and has led to the credit crunch.
Any early successes as an Independent just encourages us to greater Independence – it seems to be the strategy for happiness. The more we get, in terms of money, power and influence, the happier we conclude that we will be. This is what has happened in a collective way in our society. We have used our material wealth to distract us from the inner quest – both emotionally and spiritually. We have assumed that we can succeed without emotionally meaningful, intimate relationships and have used materialism to distract us from the need to heal our fears and insecurities. The economic growth in the last 10-15 years has allowed us to maintain the illusion that we can borrow and spend our way to happiness.
This Independence has created some very unpleasant behaviours. Our Independent ego’s can be terribly selfish and greedy. We may criticise the bankers for their obscene bonuses, but the truth is that many of us have invested in what was a burgeoning housing market or searched out the most lucrative investment returns. I have had to eat humble pie myself as I find my savings frozen in an Icelandic bank! The reason we can act in such a greedy way is because Independence destroys empathy. With our emotions suppressed we stop feeling the consequences of our selfish behaviour and actions. We stop caring about other people and just look after number one. This is how the banking industry took such ridiculous risks – they had become blind to the consequences of their actions and in any case knew that somebody else would bail them out if it all went wrong. Of course for every winner in a commercial deal there is always a loser. Most of us would rather not think about the people who suffer. Even the plant has taken a hit - our rampant industrialisation may have made our lives more comfortable but the environment is picking up the bill.
So what does this teach us about our relationships? Independence always creates problems for us. As we separate and create an emotional distance in our relationships we stop feeling the full range of our emotions and when we do this we lose empathy. The worst thing of all is that we become blind to the people around us and their problems – we may not notice that our partner is hurting and needs our help. Instead we will make everything about us. We will look for external gratification and seek every more exciting rewards at work and in our personal life – but fail to address the growing problems in our relationships.
Ultimately though we cannot continue with such Independent behaviour forever – it catches up with us with stress and burn-out or the mid-life crisis catches up with us. In the Psychology of Vision model we reach the Dead Zone. Our relationships begin to fail and we are thrust back into our feelings of Dependence that we had defended so vigourously. The parallel in the financial and commercial world is exactly what we are seeing now. The pack of cards that is built around Independent corporations comes crashing down and we stare failure in the face. The very fear that drove us into Independence is now realised. This is the problem with an Independent strategy – it brings about the very thing that it is supposed to protect us from. In our relationships we become afraid of intimacy and the full expression of our emotions - both positive and negative. At best, we end up living half a life and cannot feel the joy and freedom that true partnership can bring. At worst we see a credit crunch in our relationships – not this time about money, but about a bankruptcy of love.
Let us hope that the current problems in the financial world are an opportunity to move to more Partnership and cooperation. Everything that happens to us both good and bad can be seen as a learning opportunity. We can re-build the banking sector as an industry that is emotionally intelligent and really cares about people. It would be in service to the people of the world rather than in competition with it. Perhaps this is somewhat idealistic give the egotistical track record of man, but at least we can choose to live in Partnership within our personal relationships. We can recognise the dangers of Independence and move towards people with open hearts. By feeling our emotions and communicating and healing our fears we can form much better, sustainable relationships, which then become a model for the people around us and for business.
Most of us are facing financial worries with the credit crunch. This article discusses the causes of these problems and compares them to our romantic relationships. By making parallels it provides us with some pointers to how we might improve our relationships.
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