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		<title>Joel Spolsky: &#8220;The more you feel that you can control your environment the happier you are&#8221;</title>
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		<dc:creator>Folletto Malefico</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So that&#8217;s what days were like. A bunch of tiny frustrations, and a bunch of tiny successes. But they added up. Even something which seems like a tiny, inconsequential frustration affects your mood. Your emotions don&#8217;t seem to care about the magnitude of the event, only the quality. And I started to learn that the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>So that&#8217;s what days were like. A bunch of tiny frustrations, and a bunch of tiny successes. But they <em>added up</em>. Even something which seems like a tiny, inconsequential frustration affects your mood. Your emotions don&#8217;t seem to care about the magnitude of the event, only the quality.</p>
<p>And I started to learn that the days when I was happiest were the days with lots of small successes and few small frustrations.<br />
Years later, when I got to college, I learned about an important theory of psychology called <a title="Wikipedia: Learned Helplessness" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness">Learned Helplessness</a>, developed by Dr. Martin E. P. Seligman. This theory, backed up by years of research, is that a great deal of depression grows out of a feeling of <em>helplessness</em>: the feeling that you cannot control your environment.</p>
<p><strong>The more you feel that you can control your environment, and that the things you do are actually working, the happier you are</strong>. When you find yourself frustrated, angry, and upset, it&#8217;s probably because of something that happened that you could not control: even something small.</p>
<p>— Joel Spolsky (2000) <a title="Joel on Software: Controlling your environment makes you happy" href="http://www.joelonsoftware.com/uibook/chapters/fog0000000057.html">Controlling your environment makes you happy</a>.</p></blockquote>
<p>Io consiglio di leggere l&#8217;articolo completo, non servono competenze tecniche. Inizia con un breve racconto di vita, pone questo cardine centrale che ho trascritto, e alla fine fa alcune considerazioni di design (altrettanto interessanti, ma che conosco bene e quindi non mi han colpito).</p>
<p>Questo passaggio si riferisce ai <strong>dettagli</strong>, alle piccole cose alle quali spesso non diamo peso, ed invece&#8230; contano. Su una cosa che alla fine è estremamente critica perché condiziona tutto il nostro tempo: l&#8217;umore.<br />
Io poi che ho mood swing piuttosto ampi, capisco bene cosa significhi.</p>
<p>La riflessione più interessante che parte da qui però secondo me è ancora un&#8217;altra: come uscirne? Come trasformare una sequenza di piccole frustrazioni che colpiscono l&#8217;umore in una sequenza invece positiva?</p>
<p>Non solo sul livello riflessivo e personale, ma anche proprio sul discorso ambientale. Lasciare le cose indietro perché sopportabili, alla lunga erodono chiunque. Meglio sistemare, riordinare secondo il proprio ordine mentale. <strong>Penso soprattutto allo spazio che mi circonda</strong>, sia reale (<em>il cavo continuava ad impigliarsi, tutte le mattine che lo staccavo&#8230; i 2 minuti in più impiegati a trovare il motivo non sono persi</em>) che virtuale (<em>continua a lanciarsi il programma A quando apro quei file, invece voglio B&#8230; i 30 secondi necessari a cambiare l&#8217;associazione non sono persi</em>).</p>
<p>Credo però mi servano esempi migliori. E&#8217; che sono dettagli. E i dettagli si dimenticano in fretta, ma si sommano senza che ce ne accorgiamo. Buffo vero? <img src='http://im.digitalhymn.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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