Where’s fear of failure? Did I miss it? That’s one of the big three that separate the pros from tha amateurs.
I don’t know. I haven’t been able to get past numero uno without being overcome by shame.
What do you think a cargo cult is? Because a cargo cult is an organized religion where people who have had some past encounter with more advanced outsiders, perform rituals to try to bring them back in expectation of gaining wealth. What you’re describing sound like simple wistful thinking with a lack of creative thinking.
It’s called ‘It will never work’ mentality.
It’s very common in Taiwan when you propose something novel.
I’ve had to deal with it when innovating products before.
It’s quite shocking to deal with factory owners who just look at you as if you are mad when you are proposing to pay them to do a trial run.
But when you succeed there will be 100 others right behind you.
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Yes, sir, and it goes back a ways:
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I guess you are correct. I think too much. Life would be a lot easier if I let others tell me what is.
He was a good writer Arthur and his friend was a smart fellow too. Could imagine sitting down and having a beer and a good chat with them about cold water pourers.
Those readers had some interesting content, the Audubon account on passenger pigeons was really fascinating.
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I’ll have to check out the passenger pigeon one.
I think when my dad (1916-1995) was in elementary school, he might have used those readers. There were other brands of readers, but he mentions McGuffey’s in a memoir he wrote.
It does have some interesting stuff in it. I stumbled on McGuffey’s Readers on the 'net years ago while looking for public domain stuff from which to take stories, essays, or what have you, for my cram school. But the McGuffey’s stuff, in addition to being old, uses pretty advanced English for Taiwanese elementary-school kids, and adapting those kinds of things looked like a lot of work. I think I ended up downloading some simple little stories from Gutenberg.org.
Once again, not sure whether sarcastic or serious. But either way, ask Israel about that concept.
Tl/dw: failure is useful, if you know what to do with it.
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