Challenge Negative Self-talkYou don't have to give power to negative self-talk. All positive change begins with positive thinking. When you have "vultures" in your mind, get rid of them with reality testing, alternative explanations, perspective-checking, and goal-setting. Try reality testing. What is my evidence for and against my thinking?Are my thoughts true, or are they just my interpretations?Am I jumping to negative conclusions?How can I find out if my thoughts are actually true?Look for alternative explanations.Are there any other ways that I could look at this situation?What else could this mean?If I were being positive, how would I perceive this situation?Put it in perspective.Is this situation as bad as I am making it out to be?What is the worst thing that could happen? How likely is it?What is the best thing that could happen?What is most likely to happen?Is there anything good about this situation?Will this matter in five years?Use goal-directed thinking.Is thinking this way helping me to feel good or to achieve my goals?What can I do that will help me solve the problem?Is there something I can learn from this situation, to help me do it better next time?

interpersonal communication and self-esteem cannot be separated. Your interpersonal communication is not the only factor that impact self-esteem, but interpersonal interactions are one of the most important factors in determining your self-esteem.

Your intrapersonal communication begins before you give structure to your ideas through verbal or nonverbal communication. You are constantly talking to yourself in your mind. Your brain sifts through memories, thoughts, and ideas. In this inner conversation, you plan what you are going to say, compute what you have heard or seen, and compare what you’ve experienced to what you are experiencing now. How you communicate with yourself affects all other communication.

the longest-running conversation you will have in your life: your intrapersonal communication or self-communication.

Intrapersonal communication is how you speak to yourself.

The paradox of information systems[edit] Drummond suggests in her paper in 2008 that computer-based information systems can undermine or even destroy the organisation that they were meant to support, and it is precisely what makes them useful that makes them destructive – a phenomenon encapsulated by the Icarus Paradox.[9] For examples, a defence communication system is designed to improve efficiency by eliminating the need for meetings between military commanders who can now simply use the system to brief one another or answer to a higher authority. However, this new system becomes destructive precisely because the commanders no longer need to meet face-to-face, which consequently weakened mutual trust, thus undermining the organisation.[10] Ultimately, computer-based systems are reliable and efficient only to a point. For more complex tasks, it is recommended for organisations to focus on developing their workforce. A reason for the paradox is that rationality assumes that more is better, but intensification may be counter-productive.[11]

Topic: Communication with the Zettelkasten: How to get an adequate partner, junior partner? – important after working with staff becomes more and more difficult and expensive. Zettel’s reality

Projects like the Open Journal System, Manifold or Scalar are based on a distributed model that allow anyone to download and deploy the software (Maxwell et al., 2019), offering an alternative to the commercial entities that dominate the scholarly communication ecosystem.

If in observing the present state of the world and life in general, from a Christian point of view one had to say (and from a Christian point of view with complete justification): It is a disease. And if I were a physician and someone asked me “What do you think should be done?” I would answer, “The first thing, the unconditional condition for anything to be done, consequently the very first thing that must be done is: create silence, bring about silence; God's Word cannot be heard, and if in order to be heard in the hullabaloo it must be shouted deafeningly with noisy instruments, then it is not God’s Word; create silence! Ah, everything is noisy; and just as strong drink is said to stir the blood, so everything in our day, even the most insignificant project, even the most empty communication, is designed merely to jolt the senses and to stir up the masses, the crowd, the public, noise! And man, this clever fellow, seems to have become sleepless in order to invent ever new instruments to increase noise, to spread noise and insignificance with the greatest possible haste and on the greatest possible scale. Yes, everything is soon turned upside-down: communication is indeed soon brought to its lowest point in regard to meaning, and simultaneously the means of communication are indeed brought to their highest with regard to speedy and overall circulation; for what is publicized with such hot haste and, on the other hand, what has greater circulation than---rubbish! Oh, create silence!” Soren Kierkegaard, For Self-Examination 1851 p. 47-48 Hong 1990