Overcoming Rejection; a look at successful people who were told repeatedly that their talents were worthless.

Unfortunately, there are more than enough self-righteous "I am always right" types who would see themselves as being that much more right.

But it is a very interesting read. The article also unintentionally gives an insight into the roles that other people play in the formation of self-identity.

Writing Perl like a madman since I left my job as a desk-jockey. To go back to school, of course.

There is more, but I will keep a lid on it for the moment... plus the redesign of the blog is coming soon, so I need to rest up for tomorrow. I have three classes to attend[!]

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I think I'm going to start link-whoring myself. Actually, no. I won't ask people to link me, I will ask them to just read my blog if they feel like it and post/email a comment when they feel like it. Internet fame is just like real fame; all it guarantees is that alot of stupid people are looking at you. And more often than not, the intelligent people [my definition of intelligence is not the standard one] are looking elsewhere, because you have had to descend so far into "stupidity" that they have long since becomed uninterested in your very existence.

In thinking of introducing myself to the world, I've also thought about coming out from behind the shroud of anonymity. I would like for other people online to know me as a friend just as I would like for my friends offline to know me.

The principle is thus:

Offline, people keep up with me via telephone convesation, bumping into me on the street and saying hello, stopping by the apartment unexpectedly, plus the methods that my online friends use. We make a semi-regular habit of meeting up and doing things that are in or out of the ordinary.

Online, people keep up with me and what I'm thinking by checking my web page. We interact through email, messaging software, maybe a webcam, etc. In essence, a disembodied conversation. And if my online friends are physically near me or want to meet up, we can make arrangements for realtime interaction.

Nowhere in this concept is included the idea of fame, whoring my self to the masses so that my hit counter swells to egotistical proportions [indeed, I don't even have a hit counter], creating pressure within myself to write consumer-friendly content, or even the necessity of writing at all. This blog is very much like myself in real life: if I don't have anything to say, I don't say anything at all. But if I do have something to say, it will probably take reams-worth of paper for me to properly express my feelings in words, citing examples and external sources to put leaves and hanging fruit onto this tree of knowledge that I am building over time.

I will decided on whether or not to make myself known after I redesign the blog, which should be done soon.

Excerpted from washingtonpost.com; Tale of 47 Samurai Stirs Questions in Modern Japan:

"There's a generation gap," said Takayuki Sugano, who produced the historical series for NHK, the national public television network. "The young generation does not understand loyalty or endurance. So for them, we stressed the element of rebellion."

The ideas expressed in this article have much more significance than they may seem.

Random Thought

After I am dead and gone, I wish not to be remembered as anything more than what I was ...

... although, eventually all things are transformed and forgotten anyway.

An interesting prospective on aging from Mary Lawrence Hutton:

"We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life, they are what we've been through and who we want to be. I don't think I will ever cut my face, because once I cut it I'll never know where I've been."

--Arena Magazine, Spring 1991

... but no, I'm not a communist.

Excerpts from a conversation:

what up dawg
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funny funny man

what the deal chief
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just trying to do the right thing
is all
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the right thing for who?

this is the question that plagues my mind.
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society would have us think that 9-5, three meals and a roof, no matter where the roof is,etc ...... is the right thing .... just leave them alone !!!!
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But rampant global capitalism as exemplified in the multinational corporate archetype is harmful to indigenous cultures and environmentally unsustainable.

This concept is also antithetical to the human necessity of building a sustainable and mutually beneficial community structure for its participants.

There is a ghost in the machine; the human spirit and understanding the role of the environment in maintaining all life on the earth is the key to creating a future that moves beyond short-term economic gain.

The question is, who's got the balls to start the fire?
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if you can find a few thousand folks like yourself the fire can be started ..... when you make some noise folks will take heed even if they don't know what side to take ....... times have changed and they will continue to change .....

Yet another option for my life... I could be a revolutionary.

PS>> You Can't Measure Wealth By Cash Alone.