Jumping into a new situation feet first is the empirical antonym to quitting cold turkey - the creation of a pass or fail scenario, or to put it idiomatically, sink or swim - either figure it out along the way and succeed, or bow out. Learn by doing. A very good, and very effective educational approach as it greatly shortens the learning curve. ( Read more... )

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I had always assumed the reason I was able to live without regret was that I made smart decisions one after the other. But somewhere along the way when decisions became decidedly more complex, and affected multiple systems, sometimes which decision was more right or more wrong wasn't as easily observed. Yet I continued to live happily in my ( Read more... )

The little things. Sweat them not. Broad strokes are ideal for general feelings of well-being. We can always control broad strokes, even when using the Butterfly Effect of Chaos Theory - changing one very tiny thing to see how it unfolds. Less simple is attempting to control the outcome of many threads simultaneously. So don't. That path ( Read more... )

And now, a word about schpydurx. To open this forum, I'll admit, I don't understand these Gen X'ers (or Y'ers or whatver the hell 'they' are being called these days). Sure I was young, and had periods of confusion because I didn't know what I was going to do with my life. But this whole angsty "I'm angry at the world because I'm retarded." just doesn't ( Read more... )