I’m a strong believer that every emotion is valid, or we wouldn’t be able to feel it. It’s getting STUCK in a single emotion (including joy) that’s unhealthy.

And peace isn’t an emotion. You can be at peace with your grief, knowing that it’s the appropriate response to a tragic event. I would be very suspect of someone who did not grieve a true loss.

I think there are certain things you should be able to expect as a minimum when you buy a phone, such as being able to open it, the buttons corresponding to the correct numbers when you push them, the speaker working, etc. And I think that expecting the phone to pick up a normal strength signal (assuming you’re not in a dead spot) no matter which way you’re facing is a reasonable expectation.

So I think Jobs is wrong and should man up and admit it. If he really did respond, “Don’t face that direction,” or something along those lines, then he’s an egotistic asshole, no different from the doctor who, when you say, “Doc, it hurts when I do this,” responds, “Then don’t do that.” Everyone knows that’s a bullshit answer.

And there’s an obvious safety issue: I’m driving along, a text comes in, and to read it I have to turn around and face backwards. That’s a recipe for a major accident, buddy.

Ok…you’re write.

Enthusiasm to me is another word for passion which is another word for love (trying the McCarthy-no-comma thing). Any artist who has created their great works has always loved doing it. So as our former teacher said loving the process is just as important as loving the creation for they are one in the same.

Thanks for commenting. Always love it.

And further, neither is enough by itself. Hard work without enthusiasm for the job or goal will never be more than a partial effort. Enthusiasm is needed to bring out the level of hard work required. And enthusiasm alone without hard work will never get you very far at all.

Think about any successful athlete, artist, thinker, leader. They have these two qualities in abundance, always. Anyone who achieves any level of success without them is still coming up short of their potential.

It seems self-evident, but how many people who never achieve their goals or reach their potential refuse to put in the work? Their numbers are legion. And I maintain that enthusiasm is the key to everything. When you’re truly in the right place, pursuing the goals, the dreams, the life that is exactly RIGHT for YOU, chances are the hard work, as you say Jimmy, won’t seem hard at all.

That’s a good clue to whether or not the ladder you’re climbing is leaning on the right wall.

Jimmy

http://www.FightingItTheMovie.com

Best,

Jill

Misery loves company, sure, but the perpetually miserable don’t make for good companions. Most misery is a matter of perspective anyway. So why choose misery? Like you pointed out, Jimmy: habit. Odd that people would accept a habit that makes them feel miserable.

I need to read THE ROAD. But when it comes to the pain of children, it’s a hard subject for me to read. Not that I heard anything of the sort.

Oh, well. I’ll still read it. But based on your description, the book does sound much more shaded as regards who is good and who is evil. Of course we side with the narrator, until he has his ultimate revelation, which is just as eye-opening to us, a perspective we never considered, i.e., that the “vampires” consider themselves normal, and Neville the monster. Very cool.

I loved the movie, but I love Smith, and I didn’t have the book to compare it to. I found the death of his dog very moving, especially that HE was forced to strangle the dog, essentially embrace it to death.

Your comments, though, make me want to take a second look at the movie, perhaps after reading the book.