today at work i let someone into a dressing room and they said “thanks” and half of me tried to say “you’re welcome” and the other half tried to say “no problem” and i ended up saying “your problem”
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It turns out procrastination is not typically a function of laziness, apathy or work ethic as it is often regarded to be. It’s a neurotic self-defense behavior that develops to protect a person’s sense of self-worth. You see, procrastinators tend to be people who have, for whatever reason, developed to perceive an unusually strong association between their performance and their value as a person. This makes failure or criticism disproportionately painful, which leads naturally to hesitancy when it comes to the prospect of doing anything that reflects their ability — which is pretty much everything. But in real life, you can’t avoid doing things. We have to earn a living, do our taxes, have difficult conversations sometimes. Human life requires confronting uncertainty and risk, so pressure mounts. Procrastination gives a person a temporary hit of relief from this pressure of “having to do” things, which is a self-rewarding behavior. So it continues and becomes the normal way to respond to these pressures. Particularly prone to serious procrastination problems are children who grew up with unusually high expectations placed on them. Their older siblings may have been high achievers, leaving big shoes to fill, or their parents may have had neurotic and inhuman expectations of their own, or else they exhibited exceptional talents early on, and thereafter “average” performances were met with concern and suspicion from parents and teachers.
— David Cain, “Procrastination Is Not Laziness” (via pawneeparksdepartment)
“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
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Utopia is pretty great, but the best bit is definitely the score by Cristobal Tapia de Veer
all of my friends are hot and im a egg
lay upon all your friends and fry yourself
this is the most inspirational thing thats ever been said to me
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sleep? life is too short for that. ill sleep when im dead. actually a nap does sound nice right now. *does a double backflip into my grave* it’s time
why talk about marshall lee when you can talk about lemongrab
Getting power on at the new place tomorrow. They told us to make sure the mains switch was off, so I went round and did that. Wasn’t really sure how to read the switch (very old switch board) it had a O and a I instead of on and off. I guessed that O represented a circuit and I a broken circuit. Turns out, it is instead derived from binary, with I meaning on and O meaning off.
Now I have to go round there at 6:30AM to flip a switch.
“What nobody tells people who are beginners — and I really wish someone had told this to me … is that all of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, and it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase. They quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know it’s normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.” -
— Ira Glass (via thatkindofwoman)
(Source: mademoiselleaki, via liamdryden)
It seems to me we may have met
#dear diary #today monseiur madeline told me i was ugly #it really hurt my feelings #then he lifted a big cart off some guy and it was kinda hot
(Source: lauraosnes, via rrueplumet)
