HOW DO MEDIA, MOVIES OR TELEVISION INFLUENCE PEOPLE'S BEHAIVOR

Media, movies and televisión often influence peoples's behaivor in some some aspects: as a way of thinking or acting. Although media doesn't make compulsory agreements with consumers, there are affectively some patterns that people tend to copy in their behaivor.

One clear example is about physical appereance. Almost all movies and T.V. channels are full of both beautiful men and women, who have "perfect" bodies and faces. So, people like the way they resemble physically perfect and suggesting that beauty is what really matters nowadays. Then, people try to be like those beautiful characters by buying a lot of make up or a lot of clothing.

Another example of influencing behaivor is a missunderstood idea of what success means. Quite often, media transmits a lot of contents and commercials where all we can watch are announces of cars, material possesions and so on. Those advertisements suggests that if we own that car, house, device, or whatever, we will be immensely happy but eventually we won't stop consuming in an eager behaivor of always desiring more.

Incitation to some bad or not adapted conducts can be regarded as one of the worst issues in people's changing behaivor due to media influence. In this case, is violence which plays an important role. Many T.V. series and movies have high content of violence and it can be suggested that violence is a well pattern to resolve problems or behaive in real life. In the same way, sex it is always depicted with a distotioned idea of an act without consequences. 

In addition, a final influence one people´s behaivor could be the falseness of happiness. Nowadays, it seems that media is imposing a trend of happiness without effort or without trouble. That is to say, that everything should be perfect, leading people's behaivor to a certain area of invulnerability. As a result, some people are forced now to fake  self-assurance, or happines, without being conscious of the inner-side comprehends contrasts as well. 

WHEN PEOPLE SUCCEED IT IS BECAUSE OF HARD WORK. LUCK HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH SUCCESS

Quite often it is commonly thought that people who succeed have been favored with luck, but I argue that such "explanation" is an easy perspective which avoids or does no take into account some other important but less visible facts.

For me, "luck" has more to do with hard work. For instance, it is hard work -in whichever circumstance or target- that will lead to achieve an objective, it does not matter how many times a failure exists. So viewing at luck as a component of success, whe should re-dimentionante its concept by naming or thinking of it in the way of hard work. 

For example, hard work will make us to look thoroughly for options instead of waiting passively for luck that accomplishes our target. In the same way, hard work will always make wider our chances to reach a desired outcome. All the precedent points can be synthesized as luck, in reality, represents an accumulation of superior effort and focuses on execution.

Alternatively to the previous arguments, luck has nothing to do with success due to the following facts. First, luck is always seen as unexpected, that is to say, that luck apparently provides a favorable "short-cut", but this contrast hard working, because with hard work we always aim and wait for a specific and expected response. Finally and most importantly, luck is the easiest, fastest and most immediate justification for the vast majority that always rejects hard working as the only way to achieve success in a specific point of time and with quantification rates. 

LA FUERZA MENTAL

Más que la fuerza física, que no es desdeñable, es la fuerza mental la que constituye la diferencia entre hacer y no hacer (y en ese intervalo insistir), entre llegar y no llegar, entre tener y no tener. Esta fuerza mental es lo que nos espolea, lo que nos dice "¡sigue!" aún incluso después de haber trastabillado y caído. La fuerza mental -más otras actitudes, desde luego- es el elemento imprescindible para lograr (e intentar aún en contra de probabilidades) un objetivo a diversos plazos. Desde un paso incipiente hasta los objetivos a largo término. 

En este proceso a distintas fases aparecerán las distracciónes, las críticas y los cuestionamientos añadidos a las convenciones y prejuicios, y lo que es peor: el auto-sabotaje mental. Por esto es necesaria la fuerza mental, para mantenernos enfocados en el objetivo, allways aiming on the target, droit au but; porque, ¿cuántas veces se pierde de vista la siguiente fase o un horizonte -aparentemente- más lejano, por algún comentario, situación o desavenencia? Muchas veces. La fuerza mental es el hilo conductor, lo que nos adecua a los cambios súbitos del camino, es un misil Maverick guiado por láser para que al final de la sinuosa trayectoria impactemos en seco contra nuestro objetivo. ¡Y bang baby!

Aún más, esta fuerza mental puede operar los cambios de la interfaz interna (que desde luego repercutirá en el exterior), tales como vicios, flojera, postergación, o esos malditos engramas mentales -tan arraigados- que no nos dejan alcanzar lo mejor de nosotros mismos. La fuerza mental no sólo es decir "sí" cuando todos digan que no, es también decir no. Decir "no" y cerrar la puerta para trabajar, o soltar las cuerdas y dejar los puertos de seguridad.

THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS IN LIFE ARE NOT LEARNED AT SCHOOL

Do yo agree with this statement? The most important things in life are not learned at school or college?

I think that just by going to school or college we aren't able to learn the most important things in life. For instance, what is important? Knowledge?, money?, social class?, appreciation? human relationships? I am sure that I could keep writing more, buy I just would add "happiness". Therefore, I deem that just by going to school in order to pursue a higher education will give us just specific skills as literacy or numeracy, and also the concrete knowledge to accomplish the grade or degree.

However, I want to specify that it is by "how we go through" to college that we will have the opportunity to realize what sort of things concern us or are more important. For example, and independently if we sudy in a private or public system, in college we can experience situations involving friendship -human relations-. In this part of life, we will meet a lot of people, and some of them can become really good companions and eventually friendship. Also, in college we should start to acquire responsibility in orden not just to obtain good qualifications but to star to build the discipline necesary to manage our life as soon as we start to work for us, for others, and also take care of ourselves as well.

Another important point is what kind of career do we want to have? A successful one? On the one hand it is considerated that a successful career is the one that will reward us with a lot of money, on the other hand , a successful career can be the one that is meaningful and for instance conduce us to happines. But I think that a really well displayed career will carry us to generate enough resources to grant a sound life. 

Above all, many people argue that to excel the subjects means to have learned a lot. But that is not a fact, because during our professional lifes we will fail in some aspects or we will pass through  unexpected situations that even in college weren't taught to us. 

It might be concluded that not just by going to the college is how me learn things, but in how we assume college -and eventually education- is how we can have a deeper sense really matters to each one.