Formative years

[bittercupojoe]

Reading this is like looking at my childhood. I was regularly praised by teachers and my parents for being smart, because, well, I was smart. Unfortunately, I have always relied upon that innate intelligence instead of expanding on it. At least now I have a better understanding of why. Yeah, I'm lazy, yeah, I give up too easily. But now I have

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[cablefraga]

Anything worth having is worth working for... and far more rewarding. Make yourself be organized. It's easy to fall into the trap of thinking that you don't have to account to anybody else.... but you do... yourself and your wife.

Conquer self-discipline and make it yours.

at least, that's my thoughts... I'm good at dishing it out, ya know.

[road_to_hell]

I hear ya. I was always kind of smart (I went to special schools and everything) but in general, I was lazy and couldn't be bothered to do stuff like study. Even now, I'm no longer in school, but I find it very hard to break of the laziness. I know just what I have to do to coast on by, and any more than that seems like too much effort

[cosima_sf]

me too....

[alexfiles]

Having done quite a bit of brain-changing over the years, and having my own intelligence issues, here's my 0010