Announcement for all my Students for Fall 2010 Semester
Announcement for all my Students for Fall 2010 Semester
This is announcement for all students at Yalova University and İstanbul Ticaret University for Fall 2010 Semester.
Dear my students,
Please note that we will be using this semester my personal elearning site at elearning.drcetiner.com. This is mainly due to lack of elearning services at both universities, currently. You need to register in the website first and then you will receive activation email. By clicking on the activation link, you will become a member permanently in the website. For individual enrollment in courses, you need enrollment keys given separately either by me or assistants. Sorry we don’t include the enrollment keys for security reasons.
SQL Language Part of Courses
An interactive SQL site was designed for your convenience to be able use the SQL language statements that you will be learning in three courses namely: Introduction to Computer and Information Systems, Introduction to Computer Science, and Data Mining.
The SQL site to use is sql.drcetiner.com.
Please feel free to use it in other courses such as Database Design, Data Modeling and others.
You need SQL Database settings in Figure 1 in order to be able to use Interactive SQL Site and the settings should be as follows:-
Figure 1. The settings to use Interactive SQL Site at http://sql.drcetiner.com. Please note that the Database Managament System setup in the site is MySql. Therefore, you should use SQL statements compatible with MySql. I hope that the site will be useful for anyone who wants to develop his/her SQL skills in MySQL.
Website Design in Courses
By also acknowledging your needs for designing your personal websites, two separate subdomains were prepared for the students. The students at Yalova University should use the ftp address at yalova.drcetiner.com.
The students at İstanbul Ticaret University should use the link ftp.drcetiner.com.
All students should use the usernames and passwords given by me or my assistants.
Please use the relevant forums at elearning site any time on 7/24 basis.
All the best during Fall 2010.
What is Glass Ceiling?
The Glass Ceiling
We often limit ourselves without knowingly doing so. We have been conditioned throughout our lives to be less than what we could be.
The conditioning starts at home and continues through school, college, and university. The process does not stop there but continues throughout your working life.
Aspects of the conditioning can be described using Pavlov’s theory of conditioning. As I am positive that you will be familiar with Pavlov’s theory of conditioning I will not go further into it but will instead reveal how we limit ourselves by a glass ceiling.
The glass ceiling is best demonstrated by the following three examples. And although some of the animals used in the examples may not seem to be closely following the human patterns, the conditioning illustrated applies to humans too.
The Pike experiment
As an experiment, researchers put a pike in an aquarium full of minnows. Whenever the pike was hungry it had no problem catching and eating a minnow.
Subsequently the researchers inserted a glass pane into the aquarium creating two separated areas trapping the pike in one side of the aquarium. Once the pike had eaten all the minnows on its side of the aquarium it then tried to catch the minnows it could see on the other side of the glass pane. But each time it tried to do so it bumped against the glass pane.
After a while the researchers removed the glass pane from the aquarium allowing the pike to swim freely amongst the remaining minnows. However, the pike did not try to catch any of the remaining minnows. It had been conditioned to believe that it could not catch the minnows and died in the midst of plenty.
Elephant Training
Have you ever been to a circus or watched a documentary on India in which they use elephants to carry logs etc. and noticed how an elephant can be safely secured with nothing more than a thin rope and a short wooden stake?
Lets face it, a full grown 5-ton elephant should be able to pull the short wooden stake from the ground with ease and make a break for freedom, but it doesn’t. So what stops it from pulling out the stake and making the break for freedom?
The answer lies in its limiting self beliefs. The limiting self belief is instilled into the elephants psychic by conditioning.
When a captive elephant is a baby it is chained to a heavy metal stake driven deep into the ground. This limits its movements and conditions the baby elephant for adulthood.(Not much different to the way human societies condition their
young when you really think about it.) By the time the elephant reaches adulthood it has learned that it cannot break free from the heavy metal stake and chain. Once the trainer is satisfied that the elephant has been conditioned he substitutes the heavy metal stake and chain for a simple wooden stake and rope. So how does a wooden stake and a rope hold a full grown elephant? The answer is simple… The wooden stake is not the only thing holding the adult elephant. Something else is also holding the adult elephant back and that is…
… Its mind.
As a baby, the elephant probably tried repeatedly to free itself from its bond, but was always unsuccessful. After repeated attempts and considerable pain the young elephant realizes that it cannot break free and finally stops trying.
As an adult the elephant remembers the pain from its childhood and desists from pulling on the rope when it feels the lightest resistance from the stake. We too are similarly constrained limited by reality as we perceive it to be.
Flea Training
Years ago flea circuses were all the rage. However, it would not bode well for a flea circus if its performers keep disappearing into the audience. So how did they train the fleas to remain in the ring? The answer, as always, is by conditioning (another word for training) the fleas to remain in the ring. This was done by putting the fleas into a glass container the size of the ring the fleas were to perform in. Some of the fleas would injure themselves or even kill themselves trying to jump through the glass. After a time the surviving fleas learned how far and how high they could jump without hitting the walls of the container. And now they were ready for the next stage of their training to perform in the ring.
Limiting Self Belief
Our limiting self beliefs, like all personal self beliefs, can be very specific to certain facets of our life. They can allow a certain ’success’ but will set subconscious boundaries on that success which we will find very difficult to cross.
These limiting self beliefs are some of biggest obstacles to keeping ones dreams alive and yet very few people understand the very real dangers these beliefs represent. Ignoring your limiting self beliefs doesn’t work; they’ll simply devour your dreams alive. Our limiting self beliefs translate to self limiting thoughts. Self-limiting thinking is addictive and over time we form habits that correspond with those thoughts. To change our self-limiting beliefs and the thoughts that go with them, you have to be willing to form new habits.
Self-limiting behavior comes in many forms; these include preconceived notions, unhealthy expectations, and irrational thoughts you may have formed about your abilities, skills, and chances of success. They essentially paralyze your ability to think effectively, to make sensible decisions and to take proactive actions.
Another way of looking at looking at self-limiting beliefs is to consider them as faulty or outdated programming that obstructs or cripples your growth. The difficulty we have in identifying them is that we conceive them to be part of our core beliefs. However, if you find yourself fighting through procrastination, stress, worry, anxiety or fear you can be relatively sure that that your self-limiting beliefs are dictating your life’s reality and ultimate destiny. What self-limiting beliefs are holding you back? For some it could be past experiences, something that happened in their childhood or something that was repeated often enough as to make an impression on their mind. For others it can be the economic news of the day or the doom and gloom of what passes for news nowadays. It could be a negative influence in their life and there are enough of those around – people who always try to knock down your ideas or your work. Self limiting beliefs can also stem from negative family, peers or cultural beliefs. We are all conditioned by our experiences. The process never stops. It starts at birth and ends at death. Whether through culture, peer pressure, propaganda and advertising we are being conditioned. Your environment, the society in which you live in tries to control you and mold you into what it considers the ideal citizen.
Your peers dictate how you behave, the clothing you wear and your hairstyle among other things. And even though many of us believe that we live in a free world, government propaganda push through laws that erode many of our basic freedoms all in the name of freedom.
What To Do
Unfortunately for us self-limiting beliefs can easily be mistaken for reality. We take them at face value without examining the reasons for those beliefs. A way to deal with self-limiting thoughts or beliefs is by preventing them in the first place. Listen to your self talk, be aware of your thoughts and examining the possible sources mentioned above to discover what your limiting self beliefs are
Once you are aware of what these thoughts it will give you an idea of where their opposites (self-empowering beliefs) can be found and incorporated into your life. If need be, get a coach to help you through the change needed to get rid of your self limiting beliefs.
If you want to use a coach to help you get rid of your self limiting beliefs you must be willing to work with the coach. You have to be truthful in the process. Don’t try to second guess your coach and don’t be economical with the truth when answering to a question.
Old habits die hard, and being creatures of habits, there is always an unconscious resistance to change within us. Our subconscious mind prefers the the status quo; our comfort zone.
Our subconscious mind uses fear as the gate-keeper to our comfort zones. And for this reason when we step out into unfamiliar territory the change is invariably accompanied by nervousness and apprehension. We should view our limiting self beliefs as disabilities that set boundaries to our actions and knowledge. However, we do not need to accept to remain as we were shaped by our hereditary body-mind and by the conditioning of our childhood and culture.
To remove a limiting belief, it isn’t enough to identify and acknowledge its existence. Even if you are aware of some of your limiting beliefs, the awareness of those beliefs isn’t necessarily enough to keep them from operating in your life.
Fortunately for us our perceived reality isn’t a fixed entity, it is an image, a perspective that we hold in our minds. Because of this our “reality” can be altered through critical thoughts and consistent action on our part.
It is only by thinking critically and through questioning about how we are being manipulated and conditioned by our culture, by our peers, by propaganda and by advertisers, that we become aware of what is going on.
And only by being aware of the conditioning you can do something about it.
“Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.” - Dale Carnegie
Extracted from “How to Generate Multiple Streams of Income on the
Internet” by Alain Prud’homme
Differences between a manager and a non-manager
Differences between a manager and a non-manager
When you take a long time, you’re slow.
When your manager takes a long time, he’s thorough.
When you don’t do it, you’re lazy.
When your manager doesn’t do it, he’s too busy.
When you make a mistake, you’re an idiot.
When your manager makes a mistake, he’s only human.
When doing something without being told, you’re overstepping your authority.
When your manager does the same thing, that’s initiative.
When you take a stand, you’re being bull-headed.
When your manager does it, he’s being firm.
When you overlooked a rule of etiquette, you’re being rude.
When your manager skips a few rules, he’s being original.
When you please your manager, you’re apple polishing.
When your manager pleases his manager, he’s being co-operative.
When you’re out of the office, you’re wandering around.
When your manager is out of the office, he’s on business.
When you’re on a day off sick, you’re always sick.
When your manager is a day off sick, he must be very ill.
When you apply for leave, you must be going for an interview.
When your manager applies for leave, it’s because he’s overworked.