Re:Ask HN: Where do I go from here?
by juliusmcfly on Sunday May 31, 2009 @10:40PM
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Agreed. Much appreciated. On second thought, you were pretty close to the truth. I'm my worst own enemy in some ways, but I'm changing and maturing every day.
Re:Ask HN: Where do I go from here?
by omarchowdhury on Monday June 01, 2009 @07:31AM
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You seem to bend your will to the opinion of others very quickly.
Re:Ask HN: Where do I go from here?
by juliusmcfly on Monday June 01, 2009 @08:36PM
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It's not so much that I bend my will easily to the opinions of others. I do believe that there is at least a grain of truth in most well thought out advice, and I do try to be flexible when considering others' opinions. Once I read the comment through a different lens, I saw the truth in what it was saying.
Alternatively, I could just refuse to acknowledge the accuracy of any of this and bicker over minutiae and semantics, but I choose not to.
Well, you could be right. I think inherent in the advice I gave above is the idea that it might be too harsh but people who prepare for the worst sail through situations that are easier than the one's they were prepared for.
That said in my observations of the world I've found changing yourself is the hardest thing anyone ever has to do. That's why the astronaut who was successful enough to beat out everyone else in the country can't seem to kick his smoking habit. Or how a guy who managed to become President of the United States TWICE, which is not easy to do, can risk it all for a brief liason with an intern.
Bottom line: Our own vices are generally the hardest opponents to beat