According to a study about stress from England, the knowledge level of ordinary workers who use more than three different appliance, such as email, mobile phone, and mp3, was low in the IQ test. Their IQ has been rapidly decresed up to 10 score while they are twice better when they take Mariana. This type of syndrom is called ’informania’. The informania usually slowers people’s brain activities as time goes by. We should stop pretending to keep working without any rest.

I am already tired in front of my laptop today. I’d like to get a Ipad2 though. Pretty soon..

Q. Korean Designers may not catch up with American Designers in terms of creating strong concepts. I heard that you are leading your study group to strengthen the ability of concept making.

A. I cannot guarantee that how many designers would be able to answer my questions like what your concept is and why it is like that. One of my clients said, some American and European designers among international designers take more than 30 minutes to explain about a simple plain circle in usual, while others don’t. Even though their explanations did not make sense at all but listeners eventually got impressed by them because they had strong concepts and the designers already knew how to express themselves.

The designer’s job is to sell their spirits and concepts. Not only in order to make something beautiful, they need to be trained in some ways, but also to put their meanings and lives into their space created, there should be a strong concept. In this point, Korean designers are going backward. These differences are definitely coming from their educational and cultural backgrounds. To be more specific, from my personal experience while I was lecturing in universities, art students such as freshmen and sophomore in Korea were required to study high skills and techniques to design something rather than building up how to make good concepts in a logical way. In the period of time that they needed to make a strong base for design histories and theories, they seemed like missing a significant part of study in their lives.

Also, they, Asian people, are not comfortable to express themselves when comparing to people in Western cultures. They haven’t got used to it. Of course, it doesn’t mean that Asian designers have lack of concepts for their work but they should have learned how to organize their thoughts and to persuade people to get them. As a result, they wouldn’t have developed it at all. As for designers, concept making is an essential part of study.

- Interview by Design-net, June http://blog.naver.com/maru_kamel?Redirect=Log&logNo=130052068088

 Welcome to the CMF Training page on HAVING A MORNING DEVOTIONAL OR QUIET TIME WITH GOD. A morning devotional time or “quiet time” is an intimate time of fellowship between you and God, one-on-one. Beginning your day with God is a sweet reminder of your unique relationship to the Father. I liken a “quiet time” to my early morning routine with my family, especially with my youngest children. I’ll be sitting in the living room reading and my kids will wake up and come stumbling out into the living with their hair askew, still wiping the cobwebs out of their head.

They’ll crawl up in my lap and snuggle for just a few minutes. Wrapping their arms around my neck, they want to be reassured of my undying love for them and to hear me whisper “I love you” into their ears. Having had this sweet moment of intimacy with their dad, they are now ready to tackle the day. That’s a “quiet time.” It’s an opportunity to crawl up into God’s lap, throw your arms around His neck, and hear Him whisper in your ear, “I love you.” “Beginning your day without connecting to the Throne of Grace is like beginning your day without any direction or like trying to walk through the day without gravity to keep you anchored to earth.

1 Cor. 9:26 “Therefore I do not run like a man running aimlessly; I do not fight like a man beating the air.” Hearing this sweet reminder anchors me and reminds me what is important in life. It calibrates me for the day and gives me direction. It’s important to start FIRST THING in the morning because as the momentum of the day builds, it’s very difficult to quiet my heart and be tender for God’s sweet tenderness for my soul. Here’s what a quiet time or devotional time is NOT: It’s not Bible Study – Bible Study is WORK. I liken Bible Study to Jacob wrestling with the angel in Genesis 32:24-26. He would not let go of the angel, and wrestled him until the angel blessed him. That’s Bible Study.

We wrestle with a particular passage until God blesses us from the passage. If you’re not working hard, then you are probably not doing Bible Study. A Quiet Time or Devotional Time is a sweet time of tenderness and intimacy. It’s not a Bible reading program – While reading through the Bible in a year or some other goal is absolutely invaluable, the time reading is “goal” and “accomplishment” driven time. In order to get through your “program,” you do not have time to “stop and smell the daisies” along the way. Otherwise, you’ll fall behind for that day’s goal. In contrast, the “goal” for a Quiet Time is to hear a sweet word from God. A Quiet Time/Devotional Time is simply a time of quiet and devotion when you begin in a solitary place by asking God to make Himself known to you as a Friend and Father; you then go to a short passage and read it in a meditative manner, all the while asking God to reveal Himself to you through the passage; and then you pray over the passage focusing on how it can personally affect you and your walk with God.

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