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Re:When You Are Depressed, Make Something by Jugurtha on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @11:32AM (#13366074)
I've had this thing where I'll think about all the things I'll never do.. At 17, I'd go "I'll never be as good as Gauss". At 19, "Jesus, Lagrange taught at college at age 19". At 20, "Galois died at 20..Damn.."

The only thing that I have going for me is that I have dissociated my emotional/psychological state and my intellectual pursuit to become smarter than I was the day before. I can work on stuff when I'm happy, when I'm sad, when tears are wetting the paper, when it's cold, when it's hot, when I'm anxious, when I'm relaxed. The first thing I did after college is trying to come up with a studying schedule to undo the harm of not making the most out of it.

This is great, right? The downside is that, judging myself even more harshly than when I judge myself compared to others: If I can work in all conditions and everyday, how come I still suck at everything and can't do anything well. I haven't found an answer to that, yet.

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Re:When You Are Depressed, Make Something by JoeAltmaier on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @11:36AM (#13366121)
Mozart died at 35 ... of strep.
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Re:When You Are Depressed, Make Something by Jugurtha on Wednesday January 11, 2017 @12:12PM (#13375498)
I'm missing your point. Do you mean he was unlucky not to have lived enough, or to have died of strep? (the 'or' is a boolean 'or', not a colloquial one. i.e: not mutually exclusive).
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Re:When You Are Depressed, Make Something by JoeAltmaier on Thursday January 12, 2017 @11:46PM (#13388461)
Just continuing the theme of, "When so-and-so famous person was your age, he was dead"
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Re:When You Are Depressed, Make Something by Jugurtha on Friday January 13, 2017 @11:58AM (#13392376)
Hmm, the only death example was Galois. Not sure we can make a theme out of that. Also, I'm not sure: are you 35 and are talking about yourself or something made you think I am?
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Re:When You Are Depressed, Make Something by JoeAltmaier on Sunday January 15, 2017 @10:00AM (#13404241)
I'm adding a synonym to 'pedant' in my online dictionary: 'jugurtha'
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Re:When You Are Depressed, Make Something by Jugurtha on Sunday January 15, 2017 @06:22PM (#13407063)
My replies to your comments were questions to elicit further details because I didn't understand what you meant (maybe an inside joke, maybe a gem hidden in there) and I didn't want to go with assumptions and possibly miss meaning. You called me a pedant for that.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jugurtha

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