If you've ever struggled to navigate office politics, faced a catty clique at church, or felt left out of a social circle and thought, "This feels like high school," you are not alone.
Since we develop our identities during those formative teenage years, there's a part of us that stays there. A recent New York Magazine piece explained "Why You Never Truly Leave High School." According to the article, even when high school long behind us, it remains at the front of our minds:
The adolescent years occupy a privileged place in our memories, which to some degree is even quantifiable: Give a grown adult a series of random prompts and cues, and odds are he or she will recall a disproportionate number of memories from adolescence. This phenomenon even has a name?the "reminiscence bump"?and it's been found over and over in large population samples, with most studies suggesting that memories from the ages of 15 to 25 are most vividly retained.
Vivid might be an understatement. I remember standing with my back to the biting February wind, smoking behind the school with the rest of the misfit kids because the social taxonomy of my high school had me slotted into the genus "freak." The smoking area was the place where the freaks lit up between classes. Jocks and cheerleaders ruled the football field. The library was the home of the brainy kids. Thespians owned the warren of rooms surrounding the school's theater space.
I home-schooled my three children through high school hoping the experience would provide a more inclusive, less socially segregated frame of reference. Even within the more individualistic home school community, fairly typical cliques and alliances formed among many of the teens, even though there was no physical football field, library, or smoking area to mark each group's turf.
Take away the school, the cliques are still there. Turns out, you can even add a few decades, and the cliques still remain. Any time adults are herded into "giant boxes of strangers," the same kind of tribalizing behavior we first experience during our teens usually follows, according to U.C. Davis researcher Robert Faris, cited in the New York Magazine article. We will be dealing with high school dynamics until we draw our final breath.
High-school-for-life includes our experiences in the church. Is there anyone out there who hasn't experienced a case of benign exclusion (or worse, a Mean Girl-style campaign) by an "in-group" at church at one time or another? We Christians don't always do a good job of acknowledging that our lifelong growing pains and insecurities shape our identity. If our adolescent search for self forms the filter through which we interpret social reactions for the rest of our lives, then I suspect there's an important "both/and" tucked inside the "either/or" way in which we usually talk about our "in the world, but not of the world" identity as followers of Christ.
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The road to IT project success is rife with potholes, road blocks, and the occasional run-in with an angry pack of wolves. Navigating the holes and sidestepping the snapping maws requires a good risk management model. In a PDF provided by Lawrence Technological University, Samer AlHawari, Fadi Thabtah, Louay Karadsheh, and Wa?el Musa Hadi piece together a framework that they believe will help to minimize and mitigate risk on that winding road.
ends with risk education, always improving, always adapting. Those looking for a comprehensive and thorough model by which to handle their IT risk management would do well to study the model provided here. You will inevitably still trip over a pebble in the road now and then, but you can rest easy knowing that the wolves will never catch your scent.
Yesterday, Nevada officials rushed through a bill which makes interstate online poker legal. The decision will allow the state to form pacts with other states, allowing people to play legally across borders.
Hmmm, that?s not exactly what I?m looking for at all.? Facebook sort of has it right with ?mobile phone shops?, but to assume that I want to know what cell phone shops that Casey has been to or that I?d be looking for a cell phone in Italy?? I?m not even Facebook friends with Casey, so I?d say Facebook is way off on this one.? However, if I click on ?cell phone cases? web search (the 5th line down in the image above), that takes me to a search powered by Bing, and here?s what that looks like:
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