Life Science
There is a certain number of things every idealistic romantic perfectionist needs to learn in order to survive in this materialistic, pragmatic and imperfect world.
- Don't do what is irrelevant for you and do what is relevant for you.
- Distinguish between relevant and irrelevant.
- Don't think about irrelevant things and think about relevant things.
I think I'm doing not bad with first two points, but still failing to master the last one. I'm thinking too much about the things that do not depend on me, the things I cannot change. If you have some other points to add I'd be happy to see them.
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# posted by romka,
Friday, February 08, 2008
15:34
but how to know when something irrelevant might become relevant in the future?
Finally I see some good example of consistency!! Complimenti!
thing -> things (reading carefully to see for the holes in the idea)
For el Mono - that is how housewives think. It should be possible to proove that they collect all irrelevant things just because they have this skill hardwired in the brain and in practice no housewife would die if she hadn't spare boxes in the storage room.
And survival in this idea probably means survival now, not in future, therefore you do not need to think of future.
4. Learn to make things irrelevant: just say "So what?" and sooner or later a thing that seems to be relevant converts into an irrelevant one.
Relevant is what you really want and irrelevant is everything you don't really want. Of course, your wishes change in time. I can suggest you to use the following approaches:
1. Oracle (whenever available).
2. Heuristics (community knowledge, etc.)
3. Statistics (especially your own track of wins and failures)
4. Random guessing (default)
approaches for what?
(We can't read your mind!)
Oh, sorry, approaches for sorting out irrelevant-now-but-relevant-in-the-future from irrelevant-always.