All this week was filled up with learning about new things.  I have to confess that I enjoy learning, but also that the frist two days of this specific week were rather tiring.

Not the learning itself, instead of this is was the getting over learning a real new terminology. It were two days filled with theory and theoretically things and my poor head started to hurt about the try storing all away.

But now this has changed and since we have started the practically part of the training ‘m feeling fine again. It is really not I would mind learning, but doing it myself does help me. My brain is a practically orientated mind. Make me doing it and I will understand and even store it away without real effort. I can do it … I can and will remember it … or be able to read and understand it again next time I need it. Nothing in life exceeds a stable basis of knowledge making you able to to understand some given fact in a holistically way, instead of just trying to remember how to do it instead.

And at the end it isn’t really something totally new. One thing for sure! Within IT Business everyone does cook with water only. There is nothing real new. It’s just wrapped in different paper – that is all!

But yeah, now I’m looking forward to the weekend and will for sure enjoy this break … but also feel already excited about the knowledge next week will be about continuing with it again.

Yesterday on a quick move we decided to head to the movies. Feeling keen to see the new Will Smith movie " Seven Pounds" (btw it’s German title is "Seven Lifes"), to be honest, I wasn’t really aware about what I would see.
But having heard about it a bit I didn’t really expect an easy to consume movie though.

The movie does start somewhat confusing and it really needs a while for you getting an idea about what is going on here. And believe me or not, I really can’t imagine some thoughtfully and caring person not leaving the cinema later on feeling "touched" by the story.

The movie is as fascinating as scaring at the end. And the idea behind about balancing something bad you have done or forced earlier with something good now - however good it might be - is something "rather" strange. Especially as for we all know about it doesn’t work! Nothing in world can make something not having happend first.

It is our fate or luck …. however you like to see it …. that our brain is made to forget about bad things quickly and instead thend to store nice and pleasant memories even more "pleasant" as they might have been really.

As a commited organ donator this story touches me in several ways. First of all seeing what can be done is great and encourages me in my thinking. But on a second look, it is very deep touching as well and I can’t ommit me thinking that such doing (story or not) would turn the whole tingy into an absurdness???

I really can say this movie keeps me busy thinking about! It is a touching movie – not sure I would call it "good" movie though!

As already mentioned,, this week was filled with a lot of work issues. A bit of travelling, meetings, phone calls, chats and generally chances to pick up information. At the end a time, keeping my brain very busy by permanently processing all incoming info.

Since weeks – better lets say month – I had the feeling that there is something in the air. Some chance, some possibility or perhaps just an idea I wasn’t able to get instantly.

By knowing my brain likes to work as some information collector permanently storing away all input for later use, I’m aware that I’m not always be able to see the ‘real’ point instantly. But it is the unconscious part of my mind taking care about me being able to remember person and context within I got an information.

Some talking here, some info there and my brain constantly fitting it together … and suddenly I could see this week!

The occasion, the opportunity and the way to "speak" it to happens. Sitting in a meeting on wednesday, talking with the right guys, about the right topic, exactly at the right moment and it was there. Finally and clear for me!

I really appreciate situations like that, when I have the feeling about being me finally seeing things clear!
Sure there is still an ‘if’ and a ‘when’, but the idea is born. And perhaps in a few weeks I can tell more … and then, then I’m sure about it will become a very interesting time for sure! We will see.

The term “the man in the middle” is often used in a bad context speaking about those bad guys fishing or phishing for secret information. But in my today’s posting I want to write about it in a different meaning.

How often we are the man in the middle by doing work and dealing with two different parties at the same time ourself?

Providing services in general has become one of the most important business branches today. But dealing, what is often the case, with two unstructured individuals or organisations (what just double the trouble)  forces a lot of patience and well structured work and structures from any “service provider”.
I have to confess that “even I know it’s wrong” fall in that category of people using their brain as their most important tool to work with. Means I keep things store in my head and have a talent in doing (mostly) the right combinations.

Just I’m sure you know such situations in when both parties just “shovel shit” on you with both hands at the same time, your blood pressure goes up and your caffeine consume is reaching astronomically regions?

This morning I had such a situation. Now it is often not possible to change your customers or other providers you are relying on. What can you do?

Since a while I following an idea I had …. instead of turning grumpy and shout on them …. I just slow down, wait, don’t answer for a while and just await them recognising it! They are used in me doing my job and solving their issues, now doing not (at least for a moment) they start to ask!

And with this attention back on me it is far way easier again to tell, them that it needs a few more information or planning and well structured organising of things to accomplish work for them.

I’m not sure it is the right strategy … just it saves my energy!

Being a member of an Internet Discussion List, early this week I was allowed to enjoy the newest weekly published cartoon of another list member there. For my feelings this cartoon asked a very interesting question, trapping my mind thinking about it all week.

It was plainly about the question why designer and programmer never will come together …. An interesting question that is! Isn’t it?

Thinking about this question, I found out about my personal answer to it – Not sure I’m right or not with it! But for me it works.

Looking at myself, I’m aware that I have an analytical working brain, while designers for my feelings needs to have a mainly creative working brain for being able to do that they do. This is no absolutism and for sure every brain has both abilities. It is just your very own personal way to deal with or solve your daily problems or more basically just to do what it needs to do for you.

Whenever I’m confronted with something new, like work I have to do, a problem, a decision to make or even just with a new person I meet or I have to deal with, I start to analyze it, him or her … Make my personal plan, decision or judgement about and follow my intuition which is in most cases “more or less” the right one.

This does not mean I’m not able to correct or adjust myself later on again when I recognize that I was wrong. In a difference to that I’m mostly “too quick”, or depending on the way you like to see it in some situations “too stubborn” following and staying with my plan without doubts, for others.

This works for me very well, as for it’s my personal nature to do so. Just for others it often appears cold and rational which is a bonus for work or any critical situation within it needs to keep a cool head. But can turn out into a problem when it means to deal with other humans on a more emotional layer and they start to think about me as arrogant, pushing or demanding.

Guess you just have to know me and to know how to deal with me, for making it working!

Getting older, the more I understand about that issue and the more and the better I can deal with it. Just I often still feel sometimes helpless, when my opposite just plainly acts emotional no longer being able to listen to some given facts and me not being able to follow.

What kind of brain does work for you my friend?