Hey there,

Been awhile since I've posted.  Some updates -

1.  I've been obsessively trying out various web 2.0 applications, in the area of group projects, reviews, and wiki's - looking for the right combination of:

a. Groups interaction
b. Group task-tracking
c. Reviews - (both for projects, practices, books, etc)
d. Peer-to-peer.

That are also do it yourself.

So far, I haven't found the perfect combination. 

My views on Integral Practice have shifted over the last year and a half, from documenting the theory and practice of various practices, to seeing these practices DOCUMENTED, in realtime and online, in a group of mutually supportive advocates. 

Thus the search for web 2.0 software to fit this.   (If anyone would find it interesting to have my experiences with these applications documented here, let me know - but if that interest doesn't exist, no need to clutter the site.)

What this brings me back to, is what I would call "Skillful Mean Peer to Peer". 

Anyone reading my site here, has seen this ideal displayed for the last year or so.  The problem is getting that goal into practice.   Much harder than the idea!

Good PDF on emotional intelligence, covering different dimensions of emotional intelligence.

From the University of Texas:

Not being a procrastinator is essential for those who live "integrally", employing skills in different dimensions.

I'm curious.  Has anyone ever experienced a tremendous CHANGE in your own procrastination tendencies? 

With a caveat here, that you have had the same procrastination tendencies for at least 5 years. Has anyone changed, in terms of those tendencies, if there is an established 5 year pattern in adulthood?

If so - what changed this for you?

From Discovery, new research suggesting that "psychological immaturity" is more prevalent than ever, whatever age.

Also called "psychological neotony".  We now have the scientific name for Boomerism!

What is interesting also, is how economic needs tend to kickstart and maintain this immaturity:

In the mid-20th century, however, another force kicked in, due to increasing need for individuals to change jobs, learn new skills, move to new places and make new friends.

So the very activities that make us economically valuable - flexibility, the ability to learn on the job, create oneself anew - possibly are someof the same factors that contribute to psychological immaturity:

"People such as academics, teachers, scientists and many other professionals are often strikingly immature outside of their strictly specialist competence in the sense of being unpredictable, unbalanced in priorities, and tending to overreact.”

Charlton added that since modern cultures now favor cognitive flexibility, “immature” people tend to thrive and succeed, and have set the tone not only for contemporary life, but also for the future, when it is possible our genes may even change as a result of the psychological shift.