The future turned out a whole lot differently than people expected. For example, Simon Newcomb, a Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician, said: "Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible." 18 months later, the Wright Brothers flew a Kittyhawk. To prove that you can't reallyknow what's going to happen, Bored Panda has compiled a list of things that seemed OK at the time, but have become ridiculously absurd. Like, diet candy AYDS. Or acceptance speeches thanking Harvey Weinstein. Scroll down to check out the entries and if they're not enough, fire up Bored Panda's earlier compilation of 30 Posts From The Past That Did Not Age Well.
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Looking at the past in good on a personal level, too. "Self-Reflective Awareness (SRA) is a 'meta-cognitive' ability, meaning that it involves thinking about and reflecting on one’s own mental processes," Gregg Henriques, Ph.D., wrote. "Someone with good SRA is able to generate a narrative of self that is complex, clear, and multifaceted and is able to communicate that narrative in a way that allows others a much better understanding of where one is coming from."
There are a number of different facets to SRA, including knowingnow your family story and developmental history, understanding your needs, motivations, and emotions, understanding your defenses and how you handle criticism, understanding your strengths, and weakneses, understanding your beliefs/values and worldview, knowing your pupose in life and how you make meaning, knowing how others see you, knowing the 'cultural bubble' that you live in. Exploring these areas can dramatically increase the results of one's self-reflection.
This may all sound very complex, but, at its simplest, reflection is about careful thought. It gives the brain an opportunity to pause, untangle and sort through observations and experiences, consider multiple possible interpretations, and create meaning. And every little bit counts. Research by Giada Di Stefano, Francesca Gino, Gary Pisano, and Bradley Staats in call centers showed that employees who spent 15 minutes at the end of the day reflecting about what they learned performed 23% better after 10 days than those who didn't.
"Going through old slides and found this eerily prophetic pic of my brother, captured late summer 2000"
My first name is Glinda- absolutely torturous in grade school each time the Wizard of Oz was on TV. I've spent my whole life being called Linda or Brenda or explaining "Yes, like the witch- the good one not the green one."
I think Glinda is lovely. Sorry you had a hard time over a name though - people are idiots.
Load More Replies...didn't watch the show, but I'm pretty sure she went and killed everybody.
Load More Replies...Naming a baby after a fictional character is not a good idea. Ever. Right, poor renesmee?
It's not a new phenomenon. The name Vanessa was invented for a book in the 1700s. People liked the book and named their kids Vanessa. Now its a 'real' name and people don't even realise it was a fictional character.
Load More Replies...How they treated her at the end of the last episode ruined the entire series. Here was a woman who fought her entire life against tyranny. Who devoted her life to the freeing of hundreds of thousands of slaves, who was repeatedly taunted by Cersei and made to watch her most beloved companion and friend beheaded by her. When she gave in to a moment of vengeance, it was decided she had to die. Yet Robert started an entire rebellion based on a lie because he had love nuts for another man's woman, and they made him king. F*ck this show for doing that to her while rewarding him for much worse crimes. If they tried to promote female equality in this show, they failed.
Daenerys, will still work as name. But not Khaleesi. In fact they totally ruined the entire show and the story by completely destroying it's most heroic and central character
She was always on the cusp of madness. They did it badly, but some major collateral damage in her quest for authority was always on the cards.
Load More Replies...I have a very unusual name. It is so unusual not even my closest family can pronounce it correctly accept my parents to this day. Good thing is I am not in school so don't have to be bullied and made fun of for it anymore. This is the reason I am strong proponent for regular simple names.
Forget invading Area 51 - worldwide Ewok cosplay on Memorial Day!!! Maybe that wasn't when he would run for president, maybe that's how we get him out, lol!
The episode of Seinfeld where Elaine is dating a guy who shares a name with a murderer. He keeps getting mistaken for him so she gets him to change his name. She picks up a sports magazine and is trying to find a name for him in there, and comes up with "OJ" (Simpson, she was referring to). The episode was from 93, the murders happened 94.
There was an interview with Kevin spacey working with kids and he said he was always looking for the shy kid in the corner.
The Edmonton Swastikas, a Canadian girls' hockey team. c. 1916
The shape symbolizes eternal cycling, a theme found in samsara doctrine of Buddhism , it sits on a flat edge instead of the Swastika that sits on the tip
Those shareable Facebook posts saying you are legally proclaiming that Facebook can’t use your personal information
Jared Fogle's Subway ads
The whole "cousins" thing they pulled in the english dub of Sailor Moon back in the day with Haruka and Michiru (named "Amara" and "Michelle" in the dub), who were originally written as a lesbian couple.
I know that lesbian couples in a kid's show would have been a big deal at the time that it came out, but looking back now, they really did a piss-poor job at trying to make their relationship not seem romantic while also claiming they were related
To be fair in the book the character is pure evil and he gave that interview before they turned the character into the comedy pirate for the TV show. He probably assumed he’d get to play the book version. Totally not his fault.
Older tv shows that joke about psychologists and don’t take them seriously. I’m looking at you Gilmore Girls
I read somewhere that if you figure in inflation, Avatar is still higher grossing than Endgame; and also if you look at the number of ticket sales. But they desperately did everything they could to dethrone Avatar (launching campaigns, using social media, bringin Endgame fans to buy more then one ticket and to beg their friend to also buy tickets, ...). Honestly, who cares. Both are Disney movies anyway
I'm guessing most of these posts pertain to situations in the US. I couldn't understand all of them, I wish there was some explanation to the ones without any text explaining why they didn't age well.
True. It is difficult sometimes. I am English, but living in Turkey 10 years. I probably didn't understand half of them. But, because i have had alittle wine tonight, i probably commented too much. So what? Understand or not, just go with the flow. Good luck.
Load More Replies...Miss all the celebrity promised their emigration to Canada in the "unlikely" case of Trump become president.
I'm guessing most of these posts pertain to situations in the US. I couldn't understand all of them, I wish there was some explanation to the ones without any text explaining why they didn't age well.
True. It is difficult sometimes. I am English, but living in Turkey 10 years. I probably didn't understand half of them. But, because i have had alittle wine tonight, i probably commented too much. So what? Understand or not, just go with the flow. Good luck.
Load More Replies...Miss all the celebrity promised their emigration to Canada in the "unlikely" case of Trump become president.