My accomplishment of the day: successfully navigating a club merger. My discovery of the day: I will never work in business (though I knew that one before) because: 1). my diplomacy skills are lacking. Seriously, I just want the issue on the table instead of beating around the bush. 2). I have no idea what most business terms mean. Finance specialty? Portfolio manager? Hedge fund? No idea. I guess that makes me ignorant in many people's eyes. I'll go ahead and say I just have a different specialty. Can you name the schools of international relations theory or varying methods to approaching a peace agreement with the help of third party actors? I feel smart when I say things like that. Woo. Two more years to swell my brain with other fairly useless information like that. Maybe that makes me a pessimist about my education. Terry Pratchett has his own take of course.
There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty. The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass!
Terry Pratchett, The Truth
I swear, he's a genius sometimes. I can't even wrap my mind around it. He's right of course. Why consider the negative and positive of anything when you could change that thing instead? I love his books thanks to things like his. He takes history or custom or tradition, and warps it. Every book I find myself asking why I didn't think of it like that. Who would ever consider the merits of a dictatorship or a thieves guild? Plenty of it is useless outside the context of his world, but he has a way of mocking human nature. It's nice to see irreverence sometimes. We certainly have enough self-help books and such to sustain the other school. A little sarcasm and satire could do a lot for the proponents of "self-esteem." Really now.
There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty. The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass!
Terry Pratchett, The Truth
I swear, he's a genius sometimes. I can't even wrap my mind around it. He's right of course. Why consider the negative and positive of anything when you could change that thing instead? I love his books thanks to things like his. He takes history or custom or tradition, and warps it. Every book I find myself asking why I didn't think of it like that. Who would ever consider the merits of a dictatorship or a thieves guild? Plenty of it is useless outside the context of his world, but he has a way of mocking human nature. It's nice to see irreverence sometimes. We certainly have enough self-help books and such to sustain the other school. A little sarcasm and satire could do a lot for the proponents of "self-esteem." Really now.
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