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- VyPR, on 10/10/2007, -4/+275Things I wish I knew when I was just a bit younger:
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AAPL - 10goto10, on 10/10/2007, -2/+106"The loudest noise in the world is the sound of people whining. Don’t add to it."
Close the comment section. - jeremychoi, on 10/10/2007, -0/+83* Most of it doesn’t matter. So much of what I got excited about, anxious about, or wasted my time and energy on, turned out not to matter. There are only a few things that truly count for a happy life. I wish I had known to concentrate on those and ignore the rest.
* The greatest source of misery and hatred in this world is clinging to past hurts. Look at all the terrorists and militant groups that hark back to some event long gone, or base their justification for killing on claims of some supposed historical right to a bit of land, or redress for a wrong done hundreds of years ago.
* Waiting to do something until you can be sure of doing it exactly right means waiting for ever. One of the greatest advantages anyone can have is the willingness to make a fool of themselves publicly and often. There’s no better way to learn and develop. Heck, it’s fun too.
* Following the latest fashion, in work or in life, is spiritual and intellectual suicide. You can be a cheap imitation of the ideal of the moment; or you can be a unique individual. The choice is yours. Religion isn’t the opiate of the masses, fashion is.
* If people complain that you’re too fond of going your own way and aren’t fitting in, you must be on the right track. Who wants to live life as a herd animal? The guys in power don’t want you to fit in for your own sake; they want you to stop causing them problems and follow their orders. You can’t have the freedom to be yourself and meekly fit in at the same time.
* If you make your work your life, you’re making your life into hard work. Like most people, I confused myself by looking at people like artists and musicians whose life’s “work” fills their time. That isn’t work. It’s who they are. Unless you have some overwhelming passion that also happens to allow you to earn a living doing it, always remember that work should be a means to an end: living an enjoyable life. Spend as little time on the means as possible consistent with achieving the end. Only idiots live to work.
* The quickest and simplest way to wreck any relationship is to listen to gossip. The worst way to spend your time is spreading more. People who spread gossip are the plague-carriers of our day. Cockroaches are clean, kindly creatures in comparison.
* Trying to please other people is largely a futile activity. Everyone will be mad at you sometime. Most of the people you deal with will dislike, disparage, belittle, or ignore what you say or do most of the time. Besides, you can never really know what others do want, so a good deal of whatever you do in that regard will go to waste. Be comforted. Those who love you will probably love you regardless, and they are the ones whose opinions are worth caring about. The rest aren’t worth five minutes of thought between them.
* Every winner is destined to be a loser in due course. It’s great to be up on the winner’s podium. Just don’t imagine you can stay there for ever. Worst of all is being determined to do so, by any means available.
* You can rarely, if ever, please, placate, change, or mollify an *****. The best thing you can do is stay away from every one you encounter. Being an ***** is a contagious disease. The more time you spend around one, the more likely you are to catch it and become one too.
* Everything takes twice as long as you plan for and produces results about half as good as you hoped. There’s no reason to be downhearted about this. Just allow for it and move on.
* People are oddly consistent. Liars usually tell lies. Cheaters cheat whenever it suits them. A person who confides in you has usually confided in several others first—but not got the response they wanted. A loyal friend will stay loyal under enormous amounts of thoughtless abuse.
* However hard you try, you can’t avoid being yourself. Who else could you be? You can act and pretend, but the person acting and pretending is still you. And if you won’t accept yourself—and do the best you can with what you have—who then has any obligation to accept you?
* When it comes to blatant lies, there are none more egregious than budget figures. Time spent agonizing over them is time wasted. Even if (miracle of miracles!) yours are honest and accurate, no one else will have been so foolish.
* The loudest noise in the world is the sound of people whining. Don’t add to it. - bralynn, on 10/10/2007, -2/+56"Most of it doesn’t matter."
Very true. Spend time with your friends and family. Memories are everything. - synthox, on 10/10/2007, -5/+46The address of the Snorg Tee girl.
- SerifTheRobot, on 10/10/2007, -4/+38I wish I knew hot to conjugate for the past tense.
- jd33, on 10/10/2007, -2/+31Easy to say, Hard to live by. Good article.
- mattxb, on 10/10/2007, -2/+26"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."
-----Bill Cosby - Irfit, on 10/10/2007, -3/+26Dugg for the "You can rarely, if ever, please, placate, change, or mollify an *****"
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+24See Also: Things You wish Real Life Had: Quick Save and Quick Load
- bherring, on 10/10/2007, -1/+21When choosing a life partner, make sure you know how the individual treats their worst enemy. You never know when it will be you.
- sarusa, on 10/10/2007, -0/+17This won't help. The great irony of trying to teach things to anyone younger than you is that if you're too young to not know this already, you're also too young to believe it.
- dick-richardson, on 10/10/2007, -0/+16'hot' is a word
- speedk0re, on 10/10/2007, -2/+18it's not you marty... it's your kids!!
- NSMike, on 10/10/2007, -1/+16Trying to please everyone is,of course, futile, but there's nothing wrong with trying to please SOMEONE ELSE.
- dude187, on 10/10/2007, -1/+16To add at the bottom: "Choose a better hosting provider"
- bob12321, on 10/10/2007, -6/+21oh stop whining.
- dugR, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13ha, I, seem, to, like, commas,
- Neiby, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12I don't know...I think he's on to something. I married a blonde. She cheated on me and then divorced me. Ya know why? She lost like 80 pounds on Weight Watchers and turned into a total hottie. Then she started thinking she could do better (read: younger) than me, so she bailed.
Surely a brunette would not have done that. :) - resplence, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10On all cases this depends largely on what they really mean with "please".
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Perhaps if you had gone with her instead of playing WoW all day she wouldn't have had reason to leave.
- DrummerAndrew, on 10/10/2007, -3/+13Pretty sound 'advice.' A little story about how perfection is unobtainable:
I had a theater course in High School. We were to perform stage lighting to a 5 min segment of music of our choosing. Long story short, I did extraordinarily well. Everyone in the class, including the teacher, stood and applauded. Days later I got the grade, clearly written, 99%. "WTF?" thought I. "Who's this jerk think he is!?" I approached him after class, one in which everyone talked about how and why my performance was so well done. He stopped me dead in my tracks. "You tell me that there wasn't one single thing you could have done better and I'll give you 100%."
Thanks for the life lesson. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+12youve impressed no one but yourself.
- JDove6, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9"Waiting to do something until you can be sure of doing it exactly right means waiting for ever. "
This one is the best for me. - weebit, on 10/10/2007, -2/+11This is good, but most of it will fall on deaf teenager ears because they think they know it all.
- thomash, on 10/10/2007, -3/+12judging by comments:
the majority of digg users seem to have problem with women.
a more appropriate solution:
stay away from women. accept defeat. enjoy what the internet has to offer - miriclaire, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9Great advert for weight watchers!
- therightclique, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7its true. following trends is stupid. i realized this in like 1993 and never looked back.
- qazyhoods, on 10/10/2007, -9/+16I wish I'd known that Bush would ***** over America
Vote Gore/Lieberman 2000! - Niddik, on 10/10/2007, -4/+11"Trying to please other people is largely a futile activity."
Tell that to the presidential candidates. - therightclique, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8god damn you for being the ***** that STILL references that movie that came out like 8 years ago.
- rightmindx, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7What the-? How does everything always manage to end up being about Apple at Digg?
- jtb4, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5She has a MySpace page called SnorgTeeGirl. She lives in Atlanta and goes to Auburn. She is 19 and her name is Alice. Now, as far as going back in time lemme know if you figure that one out because I wish I could have met her when I was younger too!!
- donkz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5I got a strong feeling that author meant to say this about various obsessions like
music styles
hip cultures
geek movements
Everything of that sort a couple of years from now is gonna sound so lame it's gonna make you cry at night thinking how much time and energy you spent embracing something that no longer matters. - soomten, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7Things I wish I knew when I was just a bit younger:
- lazyness = fat
- too much food = fat
- digg = fat - Urusai, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7If we knew what we know now and could go back to 2000, they would lock us up as paranoid conspiracy nuts.
- dugR, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5omg, she makes me depressed all the time, its like teasing us nerds, you'll never get a girl like me, digg-ers.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -6/+10Or how to spell "how"
- CuriousDan, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6Get laid as much as possible, you will not necessarily have the chance or the weight later in life.
- dpdesign, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6Link's dead. Coral cache got it...sort of:
http://www.lifehack.org.nyud.net:8080/articles/lifestyle/things-i-wish-i’d-know-when-i-was-younger.html - miriclaire, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6andregriffin-you just got owned!
- Th3_anOmoLy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4"Being an ***** is a contagious disease. The more time you spend around one, the more likely you are to catch it and become one too."
"However hard you try, you can’t avoid being yourself."
Hmm, deep down inside I'm an *****. I try not to be one, but it doesn't always work. These two leave me a bit conflicted O_o - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Five seconds after you say hello?
- bobmagoo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3#11 People will become the people you expect them to be. If you constantly regard some one (or a whole generation in your case) as arrogant and worthless, then they will either fill that role or they will rebel and disregard your advice however wise or true it may be.
- therightclique, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3but, apple DOES suX0rz, guy.
- meatmcguffin, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5level two
- BlackHeart557, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3My granddad died back in '87. He left me 10k. I only wish I had known MSFT... Instead i got a '86 Pontiac Sunbird....
- sourwood, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4# 11 - Make sure your server can handle the traffic before you submit to digg.
- SerifTheRobot, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Woops! Color me ironic!
- DiggerDoombot, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replay_%28novel%29
Replay is the account of 43-year-old radio journalist Jeff Winston, who dies of a heart attack in 1988 and awakens back in 1963 in his 18-year-old body as a student at Atlanta's Emory University. He then begins to relive his life with intact memories of the next 25 years... -
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