For some years now I have been addicted to a computer game called Football Manager. It used to be called "Championship Manager" and is a tactical strategy game where you manage a football club and deal with everything from buying and selling players, to arranging tactics for the matches ahead.
Up until recently I was winning everything, the premiership, the cups, European competition and even got appointed as Manager of the Portugese international side lol! But of late, I have managed to get myself sacked from four clubs on the trot after an abysmal series of results!
Now this got me wondering how "successful proven tactics" can suddenly stop working and amount to failure? So for a moment, let's take this computer game into real life....
If you have used a set method for success in your life, and suddenly it stopped working and turned into failure, what would you do to rectify that? Why do you think successful methodology can suddenly become unsuccessful? What changes around you to make things that once worked well, not work now?
Sometimes these computer games can in themselves provide solutions for you in real life, by showing that sometimes drastic or even subtle changes are needed as times, people and events around you evolve.
Ross
- Learning life lessons from a computer game!
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nomadrush- July 13th, 10:17
- Earthquake danger in the UK?
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- nomadrush
- July 13th, 23:19
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I just watched an intriguing programme on the National Geographic "Wild" channel telling of fault lines in Europe and in particular the dangers of possible earthquakes here in the UK.
Now we all know about the dangers facing people living on the infamous San Andreas Fault n the USA, but did you know there is a fault line that runs under Somerton in Somerset?
The programme showed seismologists tracking faults and cracks across Europe that could cause a massive earthquake at some time in the future, and possibly sooner than later! London and parts of the UK could well be hit. However, previous quakes in the past have caused splinter-cracks that run across Europe and across Southern Britain. Volcanoes that were thought to be dead, may not be!
The programme posed the question that if Britain doesn't believe it is in danger from earthquakes, is it ready for such an event should it happen?
We have seen smaller quakes hit the UK in recent years in East Kent, Dudley in the West Midlands and one that stretched from Grimsby to the Lake District the width of the UK. But what if a larger quake hit - would our emergency services be prepared? The answer is quite frankly NO.
It was a very interresting and thought-provoking documentary.
Ross
