This I Used To Beleive

[rob_donoghue]

This had some legs on twitter, so I’m elaborating in a more spacious environment

Comments

[tundra_no_caps]

Ah, the Structure bit reminds me of myself a lot. Except I grew up and am still in an environment that threw happiness under the bus called "Success", and when I slack off, and something doesn't work out well, aside from feeling crappy, I don't get support.
I also don't get support when doing something that is aimed at happiness rather than success.

And I totally get you on the "I have a system, so what if no one else can navigate it?"
I can't get my act together, though a time or two it did almost have dire consequences (I don't know how far from getting to military jail I was for procrastination on something important).

I laughed with sympathy at #4. Not because it's funny, or because I'm over it, but because I know what that's like.

So I hear you.

[drivingblind]

(I suspect you wrote this up in a word processor which smartened your quotes. That's playing havoc with your lj user="username" tags.)

[drivingblind]

The whole Fail Forward thing is rough for me, not because I fear failure, but because I'm not sure I always identify the failure as happening.

[omphaloskepsis]

What a great post! I have similar views about several of these things, but this made me ponder and refine my opinions a bit more. Thanks for sharing and making me think :)

[falkonne]

I totally stole your "argue people not ideas" bit in my interview today. :)

[rob_donoghue]

Woo, practical application!

Though I'd be intrigued to hear how it came up.