Hi. I am here at the first time. Would you like to lay out an interesting article. Original at lifehack.org.
quote: If you want to look back on a life that fills you with joy, conventional rules for success are not the place to start
1. Don't chase money, power, or status. If they come to you, that's fine. But most conventional ideas about success go wrong because they focus on outcomes instead of on the processes of living. Outcomes come around from time to time, but life itself—the process of living, acting, thinking, and being—happens all the time. No outcome is going to make a lousy, miserable process feel worthwhile.
If you hate what you do, no amount of power or money will make up for that. If your life is constantly stressful, boring, unhappy, or frustrating, how can achieving some high status once in a while make up for all the miserable days and weeks you spent getting there? It's tempting to feel that the end will more than make up for the means; that you'll forget the misery in the blaze of achievement. And you will—for a few moments. Then you'll be back on the treadmill, with only the distant hope of some fresh achievement or monetary gain to console you. That's like being a laboratory rat conditioned to unnatural behavior by occasional pellets of food.
<Removed links and snipped too-long article. --PJ>
[ September 18, 2007, 10:22 AM: Message edited by: Papa Janitor ]
Posted by Flaming Toad on a Stick (Member # 9302) on :
Spam.
Posted by Troubadour (Member # 83) on :
I dunno, LifeHack isn't exactly a spamming site.... maybe it's on the up and up.
Posted by TheTick (Member # 2883) on :
Definitely spam, check out the profile.
Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
But he had 10 points! It can't be spam!
Posted by Papa Janitor (Member # 7795) on :
Oh, definitely spam -- every apostrophe was a link. Did folks not notice that part? Use an article from a reputable source, but fill it with links to a disreputable one. Interesting plan.
Anyway, this is the nice quality spam I'm practically willing to let slide. Spelling, paragraphs, and complete sentences! (Yes, I recognize that was not a complete sentence, but rather a sort of compound interjection, if there is such a thing.) I sincerely doubt that habshetbate will ever return to take part in the discussion, but it could be an interesting discussion for people who do want to take part.
Unfortunately, I'm guessing this must be copyrighted (by lifehack.org, I guess). Is it something anyone is actually interested in talking about?
I'll snip/link the opening post, and if people want to continue the thread they may. That's fair. Please don't click on any links in the original poster's profile, though.
--PJ
Posted by Javert Hugo (Member # 3980) on :
Hey, that wasn't bad. I agree with most of it, and I can even see the things I did wrong. Namely, I did what my dad wanted me to rather than doing what I wanted. Once I got over the willingness to do anything to please my dad, my life got a whole lot happier.
Posted by prolixshore (Member # 4496) on :
My problem with all these spammers? They are taking all the good names! I mean, how cool is hapshebstate, or whatever. Now I will never be able to register the name, and no one will call me hashpotate. It is sad.
--ApostleRadio
Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
Everytime you habshetbate, I will post 8 smilies.
Posted by MightyCow (Member # 9253) on :
I bet hashpotate is still available. In fact, if you don't register it now, and start posting, you're probably going to regret it the rest of your life.
Am I the only one who read this as "Successful recipes most people know, but too few follow"? Like cooking recipes...
Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
I also thought it was about cooking.
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
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