The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.
~ Albert Bartlett
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The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.
~ Albert Bartlett
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The fact that you can’t remember an agreement you made with yourself doesn’t mean that you’re not holding yourself liable for it. Ask any psychologist how much of a sense of past and future that part of your psyche has, the part that was storing the list you dumped: zero. It’s all present tense in there. That means that as soon as you tell yourself that you should do something, if you file it only in your short-term memory, that part of you thinks you should be doing it all the time. And that means that as soon as you’ve given yourself two things to do, and filed them only in your head, you’ve created instant and automatic stress and failure, because you can’t do them both at once, and that (apparently significant) part of you psyche will continue to hold you accountable.
~ David Allen, from Getting Things Done
…yes another quote from the GTD book.
In the first half of my life — say to age 40 — I made a HUGE MISTAKE: I presumed that I had a reasonable understanding of how my brain worked. I don’t mean at a physiology level; I still don’t really understand that. I mean at a day-to-day-doing-stuff, when-I-do-this-then-this-happens, this-is-how-one-lives sort of level. Like how I thought I knew how to use my brain to decide what to eat, what to work on, what to read, what to do with my time . . .
Now why on earth did i think I had any idea?
Seriously: You think of “me” as this “self-thing” located behind your eyes, but that “you” is just “running” in/on your brain. So have you ever tried different ways of running your life? How do you know reading some such book will or won’t change your life? Maybe you should experiment with everything. Try something radical: Pay attention to the results. You’re ALREADY following lots of advice — my advice, your mother’s advice, the TV ads’ advice, your doctor’s advice — but have you ever bothered to figure out what the results are? Then make a deliberate change intended to move you toward a specific goal. Observe results. Then make another change. Then another. And another.
I mean, it’s not like your entire life depends on the choices you … oh wait. *lightbulb*
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Roxy has to find me from upwind…. she was so close, she heard my radio chirp…
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currently running through the woods trying to hide from an SAR dog. Sweaty Italian with dog treats…. I’m doomed.
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(Part 38 of 104 in series, 100 Days of Training (2017))
Walked 4 miles. Forgot to take a picture. Here, have a totally non sequitor photo of me shoveling snow.
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Lunch break at Wegman’s…
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At least, there’s a partial eclipse starting right now where I’m standing. #snark :^P
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Learned a new card game as the sun set! La vie en rose… :D …but excited to start my journey home tomorrow morning!
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Next challenge… pretty sure this bike is older than me…
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new controls for data/privacy? Yeah! …if I want to uncheck 2,700+ chkboxes (there’s no ‘unck all’) BOO!
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Aaah! windy. tshirt. 50s. mistakes were made….
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Rats! I have several tedious errands to run… hope I don’t get lost or distracted…
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A humorous gallery of camoflaged people from the PPK Philly gym opening.
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Turns out, if you follow me, we get free coffee as the fest ends! @redbudroasters
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witty words will work wonders when wishing wanderers would want what we will
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When your wife is a knitter, and insists on taking pictures of finished knitting projects… kill me now.
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Fortune cookie mic-drop.
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Does joint rotations in Starbucks?? …one who’s half way to Saugerties NY to play on– well, you’ll see!
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