Summary and impressions about expositions

Book: "A briefer history of time"
This book consists in an easy comprehending version of its predecessor "A brief hystory of time" (a best seller). Seven years ago i read "A brief history of time" and it called my attention by the fact that the author proposed himself not to use mathematical equations in the book and try to explains his theories without them, well... he did it. So, "A briefer history of time" is an easy digest version of a book written for the popular reader. Physical principles explained in both books are born and expantion of universe, space, time and forces. It is interesting that physics has proposed itself to explain all forces with just one equation.

Micro-speech
Henry speech was about his difficulties and, in general, for engineers to communicate with other people. I do agree that engineers are caracterized for being shy. Some people have the ability to talk in front of people, and they hardly become enginners, but mostly in the future they become journalists, politicians, teachers or lawyers.In my opinion, Henry did it well taking to a group of people, so i don't really understand his problem.

White Sharks
Probably most of us have seen the movie "Jaws", so we are familiarized with the situation concerning to the danger represented by white sharks. I didn't know that California has the biggest white shark population around the world, so propably i'll never visits their beaches in my life. I understood that the origin of white shark is because of the convergency of many rivers that attrack many animal for eating salmon of their waters.

"Open bars"
Javier shared with us an articule taken from La Nación about activities called "Open Bars" which consist in paying an amount at the entrace of a bar with the privilege of drinking all you want. The articule criticizes the changes on behavior because of the consumption of alcohol, where people tend to be more sociable because they have lost any inhibitions. Other problem asociated is the allowance of selling alcoholic drinks to young people under 18. In my opinion "Open Bars" are a good way for buying a lot of alcohol at an affordable price in a place with nice music and ambience. The problem of young consumers is a matter of supervision.

ICE - One century of electric activity in CR
It consists in a review of a book refered to a hundred years of electric energy supplying in our country. It highlights the contribution of Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE) to the development of energy, and later, of telecommunications. In this moment, ICE has to be more competitive because of the opening of telecommunications market. I think that costarrican owe to ICE part of its economical growth along its last century of history.

Family, Work and english clases
Luis Chaverri told us about his family. He has arround 20 years of being married and his son in at college. He told us that he never coursed english classes while he was at school. His son helped to him preparing this presentation, he's a very good student and wants to be a doctor. It is very satisfactory to see a father expressing how proud is he about his family and work.

Becoming elderly
The book read by Sandra was about a couple of elderly persons waiting for help. She made a reflection about retirement and the need of looking forward and plan our lives thinking in elderly. Everybody has the hope of keeping in contact with their relatives. The message is simple: take care of old people, they did it for you, so they deserve the same.

Carlos Castañeda
Carlos Castañeda was a writter, author of many books. His stories where about "chamanes", name used to designate indian magicians.The writter seemed to be a very particular personal, with a very strange personality.

"Un actor se prepara"
María José is a theatrical actress, so she read a lot about theatrical performance.She presented us a book she has read about acting, writted by a russian director. Its thematic is about techniques for body expression. I admire people who practice acting, because they have to memorize dialogs (somenthing that i can't).

Rich father, poor father
This book explains a theory about financial intelligence. The main idea is that i may be more important how to manage money instead of being rich, because you can lose it accessing to loans you can't pay. The book is about this two cases, a rich father with no control over his finances and a poor father who knows what to do with his money. The message about this story is about giving to our kids a proper financial education.

Learning a foreign language
Cristian made a presentation with some tips for learning easily languages different from our native language. He indicates that is easier to learn languages which precedence are from the same linguistical root, for example italian and spanish or german and dutch. He also told us about an italian priest who learned about 27 languages (with great ponouncition). I think that the main key is trying to thing in the other language and practicing as much as we can.

Famous quotes

“Science... never solves a problem without creating ten more.” (George Bernard Shaw)

The main goal of science is to help human beings to obtain answers to both simply and complex questions that arise from the daily living. There is not absolut truth, so, you will never have the certainty that you have reached an answer. It is almost a rule that the more you learn, the more you realize you don't know about it.

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” (Seneca)
I don't believe in lucky. Once i read that lucky is for prepared people (or something like that), maybe the person who said that had some knownlegde about Seneca. In my opinion, destiny is a simply excuse for those who don't want to be responsible of its own actions. You earn what you have fight it for. I can tell you that you'll be lucky if you have been working hard and you take the chance when it comes to you.

"The future depends on what we do in the present." (Gandhi)
As the quote before, nothing is creation of magic. Future is not coming to you, you build it. Things that will happen tomorrow are a product of what i had planned for it in my life. You can't sit down there and wonder that destiny is going to course of you life. This quote remind me that we must plan  our lives and stop thinking about living day by day. Where am i going to be within 5 years? How am i going to face my retirement? Maybe this second question is several years ahead but waiting 2 years before you will be timeless to react.

Review of Walter Riso's book: Love and depend

Love and Depend is one of the most popular books written by Walter Riso.

About Walter Riso:
Walter Riso is a popular Argentinean writer and psychologist, born in Spain, and known for many books related mostly to couple relationships. In his first years, he worked as a psychological therapist, but nowadays he is dedicated as a college teacher and lecturer.

About the book:
The book consists in three chapters: I) Understanding dependency, II) Preventing dependency and III) Overcoming dependency. The first part of the book gives us some definitions about depedency, clues to identify it and psychological reasons that justify this behavior.The second chapter is a proposal of a healthy way of life that garantee independency and keep on loving at the same time. The third chapter assumes that the person has recognized that is living into a problematic relationship and he or she has the objective to stop the situation of dependence.


My impression:
The author employs a very simple language, avoiding technical vocabulary, and when using it, he explains psychological terms using examples of real life. All along the book, he presents many cases of people with this kind of problematic that he had as patients when he was a psychologist. Before reading this book, I never considered the existence of this mental disease. I am going to assume that you don't know anything about the topic, so here is the situation...
¿What is emotional dependency?
It is represented by a person with low self esteem unable to reach a healthy love relationship, with an addiction for affection. Thess people are characterized for being jealous, with no goals or life objectives, very sensitive to other people comments and with unstable feelings.

The book is useful as a tool for self diagnostic and for a meticulous examination of our partner's behavior and ours as well. The difficulty of identifying the disease is that it can be confused with excess of love, but you can realize that in the cases of attachment, the affected person is always unsatisfied, he or she feels that is not receiving enough and is always demanding proves of love.
At the other side, dependent people generally are paired with persons with really high self esteem, with high neccesities to be praised, possesive and even violent.
Reading "Love and depend", it will come to your mind the inevitable question ¿Am I dependent?
Fortunately, I don't feel that way in my relationship, but one can recognize the problem between our relatives and friends, and help them to wake from this bad dream called emotional dependency.