It sounds like she’s like this because of a mix of her personality and her pregnancy. If either one were different, the results would be different.
Hmm. Ok. I assumed it was because of a mix of her personality because some the more emotional(?) things she’s done seemed pretty close to her previous behaviors. I think part of my confusion on this comes from people giving her a lot of benefit of the doubt due to her pregnancy. Every bad thing she does is more or less explained away by her pregnancy. Well by some individuals. Particularly those coworkers of mine that have had pregnancies before.
Recently started playing Hitman: Absolution and remembered how bad I am at stealth games because of how impatient I am.
Hmm. I guess I also had another thought to this. Seems like a good amount of stealth games (from memory) really require patience and memorization. They aren’t necessarily too mechanically challenging. So long as you’re able to wait for certain things to happen you’ll be fine. Like just wait for a guard to move and then you can go ahead.
I think part of the reason I’m impatient is because I feel the wait is stopping me from playing the game. This is especially true if I’m doing it multiple times. The first few times I can try and be patient, but the more times I’m doing it the more annoyed I get and the more I feel like this is tedious stuff getting in the way of playing my game.
So I’m still a little confused. What exactly were you recommending thinking against? I think I got what the article was talking about. What in what I was saying was bad?
I don’t think you should be worrying about how great one has to be to be a prime mover or trying to judge Popper as a tier below Rand.
I agree. When I first posed the question it wasn’t too serious. But I’m still a bit confused. The way I’m reading this response is that I shouldn’t be putting in that much effort into caring about how great you have to be to be a prime mover or judging Popper vs. Rand. I agree. I don’t really have a need to do those things and I don’t think its that important. I should put my effort into other things.
Where I’m confused is that Curiosity – Toxic Attitudes about Greatness seems to be about what the title say: toxic attitudes about greatness. I’m too tired to re-read it right now but if I was understanding it correctly the article seemed to be about stuff like you have to be great to just be good and stuff and how toxic that mentality is. Did my thinking about prime mover level greatness come off as that? Is thinking about prime-mover level of greatness itself toxic? The article seemed to be about how people think they need to be great just to be good and stuff like that. DD had some very toxic all or nothing attitudes. I’m still a bit lost on what that has to do with just thinking of great people in general (which is what I thought I was doing).
I recently started getting recommended watch YouTube videos. I started looking into watches after buy a cool looking watch for about ~100 bucks (I paid in yen) on my latest trip. After seeing how expensive watches get I remember how expensive jewelry gets and other stuff gets. It made me think that sometimes the thing being sold in luxury products is the cost itself. Mmm. Idk how to put it. Like I think a good amount of the value in a luxury bag comes from the fact that its a rich person item. That by buying it you’re buying something that poorer people can’t buy. Or, if your concern isn’t being better than poor people, buying something to see yourself as rich.
Being concerned with extreme levels of greatness does come off as related and relevant, yes. And IIRC you also expressed some amount of all or nothing attitude somewhere.
Mmm. That makes sense. Ok.
Yeah I think the stuff with how I approach studying was kinda all or nothing.
Since I don’t explicitly see it like that I probably could be all or nothing when it comes to greatness. Personally I think I would be fine not being exceptiionally great, or even great, and just being good/ok. But also I didn’t think I was perfectionist. Hmm. So idk.
Something else I thought of related to the stuff talking about my life:
I tend to do stuff that will derail how my life is going because when my life is going well I don’t really understand(?)/take seriously what I did to make that happen. Like if I worked stuff out in my life and had things going well because I started going to bed early and stopped playing games a lot. After a while something may come up where I want to play games a lot and I just stop very late one night and I feel that since life is going good I can make that decision even though that decision in the past negatively impacted me.
Hmm. I think it’s partially a time thing but could be something else but I want to move on from coding for now.
I’m interested in doing some math and grammar stuff. Does that sound fine?
Oh yeah I bring up that quote because what do you mean by the philosophy topics? You said:
So like your articles? Pick an article and study it? Or stuff the articles cover like Theory of Constraints?
Sure. Do you need specific assignments to get started? Also, I view the coding as a type of math, but maybe you mean a different type.
Any topics on the site, so that includes TOC books too.
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It sounds like you have more to figure out about what you like about games, don’t dislike about games, don’t like about philosophy, don’t like/appreciate enough about philosophy, etc.
~yeah a different type, closer to the kind of math I’m used to doing.
Hmm. For grammar I need a specific assignment. For math is working on pre-algebra from the textbook from before mine?
Mmm/ Yeah. I haven’t given these things much thought. I just like games. I just like philosophy. I played games and enjoyed them and just say that I like them. I read some philosophy, liked it, thought it was cool and its been like that since.
Well, are you satisfied with how you live or do you want to change something? If you want to change something, what and why?
Have you gone through all of my grammar videos and essays yet?
For math, do you mean is working on that textbook fine? Sure if you want to.