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- sirdaz, on 10/11/2007, -22/+144"The closer you stick to any plan, the quicker you’ll go wrong."
I'd have to disagree on this one. A good plan should be kept to. - matt0507, on 10/11/2007, -10/+118#11 stop following random Top list on the internet.
- biggles266, on 10/11/2007, -30/+126Sorry, this article was stupid.
- PrimaryRamus, on 10/11/2007, -12/+98This article is about how to be a robot.
- alexforcefive, on 10/11/2007, -2/+72It was less "how to save yourself from messing up" and more "how to ignore the indicators that TELL you you're messing up"
- AaRdVarK3, on 10/11/2007, -3/+68"plans are useless, planning is invaluable."
- shanealeslie, on 10/11/2007, -17/+80@undersky
If you really think that way about women, and base your valuation of them primarily on looks, then you sir, are an ass. - optamystic, on 10/11/2007, -2/+501. Never get it wet
2. Keep it out of sunlight
3. Never, ever, feed it after midnight. - Kurisuku, on 10/11/2007, -15/+57It was very mechanical and narrow minded.
I was expecting a more specific list, such as "If you don't use a condom, you'll have a baby you ***** up."
Not a bunch of personal opinions via the author. - DietCoke597, on 10/11/2007, -9/+4511) Become completely devoid of emotion and enthusiasm.
- oOLiquidNightOo, on 10/11/2007, -5/+37you guys should just let go of your feelings and not worry about, whether or not, this was a poorly written article.
- Kafro, on 10/11/2007, -6/+37cheer up, emo kid!
- WoollyMittens, on 10/11/2007, -6/+36I had this vision of sirdaz with grey hair and sucking on a sigar saying: "I love it when a plan comes together."
- Slist, on 10/11/2007, -6/+34"Take no notice of your inner critic".
Self observation is the key to improvement.. if I would not recognize and criticize my errors and faults.. I could not grow. But well.. that's just my opinion. I completely agree on the other points though! - orbit1979, on 10/11/2007, -6/+34"A good plan should be kept to."
I have to disagree with that. Personally, I have never had a plan go the way I originally intended it. Sometimes the results were worse, sometimes nothing at all, and sometimes better than expected. An individual changes, people around you change, circumstances beyond your control constantly change. I personally found that in such an environment, setting a broad goal with very little detail and micromanagement is most effective. It allows me to go with the constant flow of change, and sometimes also allows for a complete change when a new unforeseen opportunity arises.
/ life lesson - mal1964, on 10/11/2007, -1/+18I'm Good Enough, I'm Smart Enough, and Doggone It, People Like Me!:
- underthelinux, on 10/11/2007, -4/+21Yeah, i totally agree. Alot of these statements border on the Vedanta Treatise principles, if anyone is interested. Its very tough for people to understand the distinction of these points against apathy. However, these points are about being content with your life and fulfilling your duty as an individual, not achieving happiness or wealth. Think of the distinction between being attached and loving unconditionally (without attachment).
I'll get dugg down i'm sure, but philosophy here is very empowering, and believe me, i was/am a very big skeptic. - axiomata, on 10/11/2007, -4/+21i.e., don't worry, be happy.
- datastorageguy, on 10/11/2007, -1/+16Best advice here is: Let go of worrying. It often makes things worse.
Having the attitude that something is likely to fail before you even try is quite possibly the worst, self defeating attitude one can have. My ex was like that. She just always assumed the worst and had the most negative view on everything before she even knew the facts. - AdverseE, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1710 ways to not mess up your life really bad.
1.) Stop taking so much notice of how you feel - Screaming in agonizing pain can only make things worse. Just lose consciousness silently.
2.) Let go of worrying. It often makes things worse. - For instance, don't worry about messing your life up really bad.
3.) Ease up on the internal life commentary. - Save that for the DVD release extras
4.) Take no notice of your inner critic. - He's just as clueless as you are.
5.) Give up on feeling guilty. - Like you give up everything else in your life.
6.) Stop being concerned with what the rest of the world says about you. - They don't know the real you, nor the number of male prostitutes you've bured in your crawlspace.
7.) Stop keeping score. - No last minute 3 pointer is going to happen for you, asshat.
8.) Don’t be concerned that your life and career aren’t working out the way you planned. - Just get to the soup kitchen early enough to get seconds.
9.) Don’t let others use you to avoid being responsible for their own decisions. - Tell your girlfriend you don't give a ***** if she has the baby or not, just stop calling.
10.) Don’t worry about about your personality. You don’t really have one. - You are a bland humorless bore. Celebrate! - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -4/+19this is the dumbest list i've ever seen on Digg. hmmm... 10 ways to not messing up your life and "STAY OFF CRACK" is not on there?
- Jonmad17, on 10/11/2007, -1/+15Every single one basically said "Stop caring about how you feel".Just in many words.
- simpleid, on 10/11/2007, -8/+21People never usually react well to hearing things like what's in that article (obviously), and the first comment was actually correct, this does just scratch the surface.
What you should have done is submit an article about some latest fad Apple rumor, something that is meaningless and doesn't matter, these people go for that crap like fish on a baited hook.
Have an objective outlook on life, to view things from a curious standpoint. :-) - Bahimiron, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1411. If you meet a girl on the internet and she asks you to move cross-country to live with her, don't.
- send2cbd, on 10/11/2007, -0/+12My 2 bits:
1. Don't get married before 30. Have kids at 35. Your 20's are for partying.
2. credit cards = financial ruin
3. Do everything in moderation. everything.
4. Get a hobby. Doesn't have to be expensive. Become an expert at it.
5. empathy. Make it part of your life.
6. Plan to retire at 55.
7. Life is too important to be taken seriously.
One more for your career:
1. There's no such thing as too many backups.
Carry on. - eywillis15, on 10/11/2007, -13/+24yep... i read the first two and gave up. total contradiction. if you “can’t stop yourself from thinking or prevent emotions from arising in your mind”, then how can you “let go of worrying”?
buried. - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -2/+13"Self observation is the key to improvement.. if I would not recognize and criticize my errors and faults.. I could not grow. But well.. that's just my opinion. I completely agree on the other points though!"
Break that down. Unpack it and look at the parts.
Self observation is the key to improvement, but what is the self, and what is observation? If you're listening to an inner-critic who's attacking you and pointing out your faults, are you really observing yourself?
If you observe your faults, do you have to identify them as such, and do you have to identify WITH them? (Are the faults YOU?)
Finally, is criticism really necessary for improvement?
For example, say you are learning to draw straight lines on a piece of paper. You're looking at the pen and the paper. You're touching the pen and the paper. You can see and feel when the line starts to go crooked, and you can instantly make the correction. It's not necessary to say to yourself, "You dummy, the line is going crooked! Quit doing it wrong!" No criticism is needed. You just observe and correct as you go. In fact, stopping--and you are stopping when you criticize yourself--will only interrupt and distract you. If you're doing anything with total focus and concentration, the last thing in the world that you want to do is criticize yourself. - AJH16, on 10/11/2007, -1/+11@sirdaz
I think the point is that if you hold too closely to your plan for your life, you may pass up on large opportunities you should have taken. It is ok to plan your life out, but if a great opportunity that you would enjoy comes along, you should grab it with both hands and hold on. - 3dom, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1011. Don't Smoke Crack
- foobarra, on 10/11/2007, -2/+11"Numbers are just numbers. They don’t have mystical powers."
but, but.. what about 42?! - Homunculiheaded, on 10/11/2007, -2/+11it's also essentially buddhist. Suffering comes from attachment to fleeting illusory things, all things are this way, including what we often consider to be the most essential components of self (personality, ego, individual identity etc).
In buddhism the most significant and difficult attachment to let go of is the notion of a unified, coherent and consistent self. If you're interested in more the term for the state of non-self is 'anatta'. - Scrollfx, on 10/11/2007, -2/+11What I get from the article is be mindless, don't think, ignorance is bliss etc.
I don't want to be that way. - kmckanna, on 10/11/2007, -2/+10This could be the worst article ever made on life.
There is so much more to life than being born, meeting people, making money, going on vacation, and retiring then dying.. This article completely blocks all of that out. All of those things that are put down in the article are what life is made of, our own selves. If there was no personality, if there was no worrying, no guilt, no responsibility, we'd all be robots.
All of that is a part of emotion and that is a HUGE part of life.
Buried for just lame. - itsmikey, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8This article really is completely absurd and horrible. Just about every significant point made in this article seems to encourage the reader to become an ignorant, uncaring, emotionless, and dehumanized zombie.
I couldn't decide between "lame" and "inaccurate." Decided to go with "inaccurate," though because emotions are an important component of being human and they exist to serve an adaptive purpose. - tytanium0503, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7*diggs random guy up for incomprehensible sentence*
- Nutmegan, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7So...how did this article make you feel?
- shanealeslie, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6I've been giving similar advice for years - mostly to people that have spent too much time reading self-help, philosophy, and introspective religion books trying to 'find themselves' and ending up absolutely miserable to the point of despair as a result.
- tominabox1, on 10/11/2007, -4/+10This article is for nihilists.
- Elranzer, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6"A man without a plan is not a man." - Nietzsche
- bubbadoo989, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6I don't think so. Like you've said, most of these comments show many of the diggers did not understand what the article was trying communicate.
For those who are reading-comprehension challenged, the writer was not advocating becoming an emotional robot or an permanent emotionally detached human. What the article was trying to communicate was the Zen of life, which is a hard concept for most to grasp, apparently.
Let me give an example: Let's say you're a world class sprinter and you're running against a rival school (nation, runner, etc.). Well, the spectators are booing and the competition is looking very, very strong. Plus, that burrito you had 2 hours ago is causing all sorts of intestinal discomfort. How do you run at your top-level? By forgetting how you feel (dwelling on your discomfort can only make things worse), putting the booing spectators and your competition out of your mind (this is a very well developed skill for most elite athletes), and, finally, you avoid attaching placing any importance on this particular race. Perhaps it's an Olympic qualifying race or the final in a very large pro track meet where there's money and endorsements. For most people, this would cloud your mind, adding layers of distraction to an activity that demands the utmost concentration and relaxation (talk about paradoxes!). By implementing the article's ten steps (you don't need all ten, start out with two), you will be focused and relaxed, able to put in maximum effort.
You don't have to be an athlete to benefit from these tactics, either. - tytanium0503, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6Spell check is a nice digg feature as well.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -12/+18Marked as lame. All the suggestions seem to rely on the fact that you have ALREADY screwed up your life !!
- xtmno3, on 10/11/2007, -3/+9It could pretty much be summed up into just one thing to save yourself from messing up your life: APATHY.
- alpinweiss88, on 10/11/2007, -3/+9Not only was it stupid, it was anti-intelligent. If you read and follow this it will actually make you dumber and probably less happy.
Here are my simple rules to being happy, and they have worked out great for me. Take them for what they are worth: an internet posting.
1. Be honest with yourself, about yourself and things around you. Period. We can trick ourselves into believing a lot, or lie to ourselves. Don't do it. If you can't accept the truth, then work to change it. Be introspective, open your senses, and be honest. Feel! Think!
2. Experience things to their fullest. If you are sad, then dammit, cry in agony. If you are happy, dance a jig. If you love someone, let them know it. Get the full experience of the good and the bad. Embrace it, and it won't be so scary.
3. Be nice. It goes a long way. However, Dalton in Road House put it very well:
Dalton: If somebody gets in your face and calls you a *****, I want you to be nice. Ask him to walk. Be nice. If he won't walk, walk him. But be nice. If you can't walk him, one of the others will help you, and you'll both be nice. I want you to remember that it's a job. It's nothing personal.
Steve: Being called a ***** isn't personal?
Dalton: No. It's two nouns combined to elicit a prescribed response.
Steve: What if somebody calls my mama a whore?
Dalton: Is she? [see #1]
Dalton: I want you to be nice until it's time to not be nice.
4. Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it. (this includes you)
I have been trying to make these my life over the last 15 years or so, and it has worked out pretty well for me. - jayfarer, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6>"Not everyone needs to live life the same way."
That's what the link should lead to. This sentence in big, bold black letters. That's it. - shannobn, on 10/11/2007, -2/+7Just what I needed today, thanks!
- Itkovian, on 10/11/2007, -3/+8I always like that last one. I also wondered why the critters didn't just starve. 8AM is also after midnight.
- endustry, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6Funny, your mom told me something completely different.
- oriondarkwood, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Things that keep me sane
Liquor
Sex
D&D
Violent Video Games
Being a prevert
Shining by collection of assult weapons, pipe bombs and swords every night.. repeating tomorrow I must not kill, tomorrow I must not kill - WarpFox, on 10/11/2007, -2/+7@sirdaz
Stay the course, right? -
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