How does the concept of `Joy of Work’ relate to modern thinking?

“Joy of work”…What this quote means? Why should we need this? what we have to do to gain this?  How its effect our daily work?

Before Industrial revolution history in Arts and Crafts movement, human creativity and machine-made goods (production) were being separated. William Morris and John Ruskin thought that by emphasizing the process and combine the expertise of craftman and thinker are most important to be success in art & craft.

As an Industrial Designer, I agree with this. For a creative designer, don’t let the rules & procedure being an obstacle in the process of producing a creative product. Its very important for an Industrial Designer to know about the process production deeply as they will meet our needs and wants by make some changes in process production. This is because we create the machine and we can manipulate the capability of the machine to achieve our design target. Like what Chris Bangle did for BMW design group. Designer lead and challenge the production technology. So as Jonathan Ive as he always thinks to be out of the box when facing his creation or design to produce.

Chris Bangle

Jonathan Ive

For individual to have the ‘joy of work”, they have to take any task given and turn it to positive thinking instead of negative. We have to use our creativity to create our “joy of work” in any situation and environment. Lets challenge our self to had “joy of work”.

I Think, Therefore I Am

In the 17th century, the French philosopher René Descartes came up with the explanation for "I think, therefore I am". It was the existential "which came first" story… the chicken or the egg.

I feel that his statement really is a fill-in-the-blanks statement. "I think _________, therefore I am _____________." In other words, "I think I am angry, therefore I am angry." "I think I am tired, therefore I am tired." "I think I am busy, therefore I am busy."

First…. the thought and then, followed by the action. It's always been that way. Everything starts with a thought. Even conception starts with a thought. You first think about doing something and then do it (or decide not to do it). All inventions started with a thought. Thomas Edison didn't invent the light bulb without first having a thought (or many thoughts) about it.

The thoughts always precede the actions. Thus the importance of "managing" our thoughts and not let them run rampant. They are not the "directors" of our show. They are simply the precursors to action. So if you don't like the direction your life is taking, or your day, or a particular interaction, take a look at your thoughts.

The problem is that once you think a situation is hopeless, then you give up on it and do nothing… after all if it's hopeless, there is nothing you can do. Right? Wrong! It is only your belief, your thought, that says it is hopeless. There is always hope. As long as there is life, there is hope. Even in situations as tragic as the Middle East, while there is still life, there is still hope.

We have to change our thoughts about the possibilities, about the process, about our options, about the solutions. We have to think outside of the box of our habitual programmed thinking. If your thought is "this is hopeless", or there are no solutions to this, then think again. I think there is no solution, needs to be replaced with I think there is a solution. At least then we are open to there being a solution and the possibility of finding it.

If there's one thing that can change our lives, it's to change the nature of our thoughts, of our beliefs. We are not powerless. We are powerful beyond measure. We can change our reality. We can make a difference in our lives and in the lives of the people around us and in the world.

So….before started this blog, my thought was .. I think I don’t have time to blogging, therefore I did not blogging. But now after I understand the philosophy of Cogito Ergo Sum (I think, therefore I am)………………… I think I can do blogging for my assignment, therefore I’m blogging now…hehehe….

Cogito Ergo Sum

Cogito ergo sum (pronounced as “Koh-jee-to air-go sum”) is a Latin phrase by French philosopher Rene Descartes. The meaning of Cogito ergo sum in English means "I think, therefore I am" and it has became a fundamental element of Western philosophy.

Rene Descartes was born on March 31, 1596, he was the first of the modern school of mathematics, as well as a scientist and philosopher. He was a contemporary of Galileo and Desargues, and probably the first modern philosopher to stand firmly against the school of skepticism. His famous quotation, ‘I think, therefore I am’ is still widely debated, four hundred and ten years later.

Descartes’s original statement was “Je pense donc je suis” from his Discourse on Method (1637). He wrote it in French, not in Latin and thereby reached a wider audience in his country than that of scholars. He uses the Latin “Cogito ergo sum” in the later Principles of Philosophy (1644). The proposition of “I think, therefore I am” is the first and the most certain which presents itself to whoever conducts his thoughts in order. The argument had become popularly known in the English speaking world as the “Cogito Ergo Sum” argument, which is usually shortened to “Cogito” when referring to the principle virtually everywhere else.

Seventeenth century philosophy introduced the concept of a sharp division between the body and the soul. In Descartes’ book, Discourse on Method, he takes a very geometrical stance. Nothing can be accepted as true unless one can clearly perceive it to be so. The compound problem has to be broken down to the simplest components, or, rather, each thought should be exactly weighed and measured, as Galileo would have wanted it. The reason used to resolve mathematical theory should be used to prove philosophical truths. He started out by doubting everything, one’s own senses. Some of his dreams had inspired him in his mathematical work, and in his book he wrote, ‘How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?’ When dreaming, we experience a reality that is just as convincing as the world we experience while awake. From that impossible beginning, he found that if he doubted then he must have been thinking, and if he was thinking then he must be a thinking being. ‘Cogito ergo sum’.

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