Thinking further about that article I linked yesterday apropos of the virtues of "deliberate mediocrity" as a strategy for beating perfectionism and related issues because of various other stuff coming up.

While no or too low expectations may indeed be a bad thing, high expectations can be pretty awful as well. Looking back I am perhaps glad that ( Read more... )

Arising from a comment I made on someone's lj this morning, about our tendency to undervalue our own strengths and competencies (in whatever area) and gaze enviously at other people's, and generally feel inferior.

(Which I suspect to be a fairly common thing. I do it myself all the time.)

After commenting I was just glancing at one of the Katharine ( Read more... )

Thanks to everybody who responded to the 'should hedjog transmogrify into Mr Toad vroom-vroom parp-parp' post yesterday: these replies are still giving me food for thought.

Have also been thinking further about whether actual skills, of whatever kind, are essential to adulthood, or whether it is really more of a state of mind and an approach to ( Read more... )