Following your passion

[Hugh Conway]

ayup - and the blue collar dude's smarter than the dookie.

[Tippster]

...and more likely to pay off in the long run.

[mtngirl79]

From threatening to fling yourself off a mountaintop 6 months ago, to the top 2. . You've made a remarkable recovery. Kudos.

I was number 7. Only 6 were better than me, although i think they have to hire a certain number of women.

[stfu&gbtw]

I was number 7. Only 6 were better than me, although i think they have to hire a certain number of women.

Probably a certain number of black muslim handicapable lesbians too.

Nttawwt.

[mtngirl79]

Hehehehe. You've been out of the dating scene for a long time.

Not that I haven't either, but I can tell you that in every city I've lived in the women/young women are more interested in pedigree/potential then paycheck.

That may be the circles and business I run in, but I can say at my local dive I see that exact situation play out every single week - good blue collar dudes with lots of walking around money and a lake house getting the short end of the stick to the unemployed Buckhead truster with the UVA/Emory/GTown/Vandy/GT/Duke/UNC... degree. They all want your business card too (to the point above) once they hear your pedigree too.

What happened to my dive bar!?!

Strange, i'd rather have blue collar any day of the week. I guess I'm a weirdo.

[Tippster]

Strange, i'd rather have blue collar any day of the week. I guess I'm a weirdo.

You're not - not even here in DC. You're just less visible.

[mtngirl79]

Probably a certain number of black muslim handicapable lesbians too.

Nttawwt.

Since we now have marriage equality in Washington, there are no domestic partner benefits. Use to be that heterosexual partners could get benefits when not married cause gay people coukd, to make it fair...

[BmillsSkier]

Strange, i'd rather have blue collar any day of the week. I guess I'm a weirdo.

To each his/her own for sure but we probably run in very different towns.

[wooley12]

Sticking with the Follow Your Passion thread, I always had a passion for skiing and then for a special lady so a few years back after doing what I could do, to do what I had to do, we sold all we had and moved to the mountains. So I guess it's never too late to follow it. Your passion.

Check out my nephews shop pics in the car porn thread. Another one of my wins. Kid is living the dream I had in '70

[neufox47]

Passions take you to funny places. Sometimes you do things because you realize that no one else is doing it or has the answer. So you end up doing it yourself.

I think its also important to distinguish between passion and dream.

[wooley12]

Good point. In my head, I see "passion" as what you enjoy doing and it often follows that you are good at it. Sometimes it pays but life is a lottery and money can be over rated. I know a few unhappy rich folks and happy poor ones. And the other way around. Passion can be a lifetime. A dream? A desire to be somewhere in the future at a place where you are not now. I'm living my dream that coincides with my passion now so it's hard to be objective.

[skifishbum]

Hugh caught throwing Chernobyl ant at hatchery fish

as a brofessional fishing guide i'm telling you a size 14 brown cheranobyl with the legs cut off is gonna get eaten by pelletheads
that and if i'm livin your dream
you should invest in a more vivid imagination

[creaky fossil]

You're so smart! I never knew that fucking the pages was unheard of until a gay guy did it! You must be so fucking hard right now. Lube or dry?

If you think I'm who was the Universal News Editor for all print, radio, teevee in the DC Metro area when they made a big deal of Studds, I applaud your sense of my age and Type A++ Achievements, but sadly I've never been in charge of running this-story-or-that-story-and-run-it-this-way. When my elem school class took a trip to the Capitol and I learned about the Pages and asked at home what the Pages did, the stories were odd. Other kids said the same. This was pre-Studds. Grandparents had funny stories. Page program is DC's Casting Couch.

I may have fit your boots at Ski Center though, so there's that.

Hugh may know that I'm a DC blue collar kid.

as a brofessional fishing guide i'm telling you a size 14 brown cheranobyl with the legs cut off is gonna get eaten by pelletheads
that and if i'm livin your dream
you should invest in a more vivid imagination

then I could ski and fish in NZ without actually going there
I'll take that for the time being

I can appreciate the difficulty of selling the truth to a technology executive,....

Truth sellers for hire?

[Shadam]

I dream of money but I'm not passionate about earning it ...

so I ride a 1985 honda trike instead of a big quad,

wot is the price of happiness ???

[creaky fossil]

The secret to happiness was discussed in the golf thread. As Ty Webb said, "be the ball, Danny."

[stfu&gbtw]

The secret to happiness was discussed in the golf thread. As Ty Webb said, "do you take drugs, Danny?"

fify5678

[Grape_Ape]

Golf is the gheyest of ghey.

[skifishbum]

^^^^
any sport where they wear sunglasses backwards on their heads aint really a sport but a waste of water
"the secret of life is enjoying the passing of time" -James Taylor
I have a feeling Carley's lips and drugs may have helped in that truism

[creaky fossil]

fify5678

I was just your caddy, I teed it up for you.

[BmillsSkier]

...and more likely to pay off in the long run.

Just realized I forgot to ask: got stats to back that up? Any hard evidence? I'd say it's at least 50/50 that the blue collar dude makes a comfortable life as the presently out of work higher pedigree individual. One probably has a much bigger safety net while the other not so much. Lots of variables to see which is probably the better bet in life but nothing I see shows me that joe lunchbox is going to be more likely to pay off in the long run -

Or it's just a passing comment with no real meaning other than to state your preference for Joe Bluecollar, I don't know. Anyway back to the thread.

[systemoverblow'd]

http://www.fastcompany.com/3036698/t...eve-your-goals

Why Dreaming About The Future Makes You Less Likely To Achieve Your Goals

Before you scrap your vision board, a NYU psychology professor wants you to ask yourself some questions, starting with, “Do you WOOP?”
By Lindsay LaVine

You’ve heard of “the Secret,” the phenomenon popularized on the Oprah Winfrey Show a few years ago based on the laws of attraction. Millions of people purchased the book, which is likely collecting dust on bookshelves around the country.

But that’s only part of it, according to Gabriele Oettingen, a psychology professor at New York University who’s studied human motivation for the past 20 years, and author of the forthcoming book, Rethinking Positive Thinking: Inside the New Science of Motivation.

“Dreaming is important,” Oettingen says. “Dreaming is a way we can mentally explore future possibilities. For that, dreaming is very good.” Where we run into trouble, Oettingen says, is when we forget about the obstacles and temptations that arise along the way.

Fast Company spoke with Oettingen about her research, and the technique she says can change your life in as little as five minutes a day.
More Than Dreaming

Mental Contrasting with Implementation Intentions (MCII) is a scientific method for people to achieve goals and change their habits. According to Oettingen, it can be applied to all areas of one’s life, including health, work and relationships. The process can be broken down into four steps, known as “WOOP” (Wish, Outcome, Obstacle and Plan). Here’s how it works:
1. Identify A “Wish” That’s Important To You

Ask what it is you really want. It should be something that’s challenging for you, but possible to achieve within a certain period of time. For example, becoming more comfortable speaking during business presentations.
2. Think Of The Best Outcome You Associate With Achieving Your Goal.

In the public speaking example, it could be visualizing yourself getting your message across in an engaging presentation or answering every question without getting flustered. Oettingen suggests letting your mind go and imagining how good it would feel to accomplish your goal.
3. Identify the Obstacles In Your Way.

Ask yourself, “What is it in me that stands in the way?” You can only control the way you act, and you can’t change your boss or control how those in your company react, Oettingen explains. In the example, it could be that you tend to talk too fast when you’re nervous, or you’re afraid of forgetting what you want to say.
4. Formulate A “Plan” For How You Will Overcome The Obstacle.

Think about what action you can take when you encounter the problem, and formulate it in an “if/then” statement. For example, “If I’m nervous, then I’ll remind myself of the other successful presentations I’ve given in the past,” or “If I’m afraid of forgetting key points, then I will spend more time preparing my remarks, or have an index card with key words to jog my memory.”

To start, Oettingen suggests finding some time, whether it’s on your commute or at lunch, to focus. In other words, you can’t WOOP while responding to emails or helping your kids with their homework. If you’re a visual person, writing down your WOOP in a few words can be helpful. Oettingen has also developed a free app for iOS and Android users to practice WOOP for both long- and short-term goals.

[stfu&gbtw]

If you want to achieve your goals, you should plan for, rather than dream about, them

Except that would involve work, which is what most people are trying to avoid while they dream about shit they'd "rather be doing" so long as it doesn't actually involve doing anything.

[grrrr]

Why the fuck are you posting all this self help shit?

I'm going to write a book. I'm calling it "Breaking the self help habit: How really annoying books written by scam artists are wasting your time and what you can do about it".

I'll make a fortune.

[GeezerSteve]

Yeah, what a bunch of self-help gobbledygook. Sheez, it's pretty simple: Fuck yeah, asking to be one of the 1 in 10,000 who make money following their passion is a greedy aspiration and almost always completely implausible. Following your passion (whatever that means) is okay, but don't require that you make money doing it lest you'll likely be very disappointed. Figure out a way to make money via your opportunities and talents. Look around at all the ways to find joy in things that don't cost lots of $$. [/brief self-help advice]

[Art Shirk]

Yeah, what a bunch of self-help gobbledygook. Sheez, it's pretty simple: Fuck yeah, asking to be one of the 1 in 10,000 who make money following their passion is a greedy aspiration and almost always completely implausible. Following your passion (whatever that means) is okay, but don't require that you make money doing it lest you'll likely be very disappointed. Figure out a way to make money via your opportunities and talents. Look around at all the ways to find joy in things that don't cost lots of $$. [/brief self-help advice]

Not to state the obvious Steve, but you called Rowe's comments self-help gobbledygook and then paraphrased his exact point.