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Better To Do The Right Thing Wrong, Than The Wrong Thing Right!
I heard a talk about changing perspective, and that quote jogged my understanding of failure. Better to fail at the right thing cause that’s how I can get where I really want to go. If I use short term failure as my criteria for success, I’ll never try anything worthwhile.
I wonder if that’s why so [...]
How Can I Refuse a Free Cremation?
You might ask how something can be free and pre-paid, but in this case, I wouldn’t push it; these people can turn you into ashes. I’m going to call the company and ask them if they’d be willing to give me the same deal if I were to wait until I die to jump on [...]
The Power of a Cold Shower
The other day I was in a foul mood when I was unexpectedly doused with cold water. Oh the joy...
Goals Gone Wild
Anything that is widely and blindly handed down from management and self help gurus should always be scrutinized. I just read an article about why skepticism is healthy with regard to the rampant carpet bombing of goal setting mania. Researchers found goal setting itself is not magical. If the goals are poorly chosen, or not [...]
A New Year, a Soul Mate and a Life Purpose
It’s new year’s eve, over the next few days most people are going to feel the freshness of the new year–a new number, a clean slate–and think about their deficiencies and how they will overcome them, all summed up in the treacherous word resolutions. I did for it many a new year. It’s energizing to [...]
Why Villains Are Better Role Models
In most movies that have a strong villain, there is deep difference between the villain and the hero that goes beyond the obvious–that villains want to harm people, while heroes want to save them. That difference is in their basic approach to life. Villains almost invariably do what they want, while heroes do what they [...]
Discover Momentalum: Getting Past Multi-tasking Mania
Working with momentalum is a way to get past blind allegiance to productivity styles.
10 Reasons Against List-style Articles
There has been for some time a rampant misuse of list-style writing in articles of all kinds, online and off.
I hate them. Here’s why:
1. They tend to create article bloating. It used to be that you’d see 5 or 10 item lists. Now it’s in the dozens. As if list size was somehow related to [...]
To Biographate: Too Much Biography
In an effort to stop social bone disease, I propose a new word, biographate, a verb that means to speak of oneself as if writing (or reading from) one’s biography. It sounds harmless enough, but it’s a rampant social disease.
You ask a man at your dinner table to pass the salt. Instead of doing so [...]
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