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Some of these things are pretty good things to be mindful about in adult life, most of them in fact. However, applying them all would make you the worlds bigge
by classics2 9y ago
Some of these things are pretty good things to be mindful about in adult life, most of them in fact.
However, applying them all would make you the worlds biggest doormat.
- aje403 9y agoAgree too much. I'm not sure where the author is from. This all sounds great on paper, but life is a lot messier.
- Blackthorn 9y agoThe author has a great experience with a messy life -- he's John Perry Barlow. In case you're wondering how these came about though, from his AMA: > In fact, the night before I turned 30, I found myself so surprised to have reached an age of indisputable adult that I wrote up a set of "adult principles" that I've been trying to live up to for 35 years.
- aje403 9y agoI get where the guy is coming from. It's the pipe dream we'd like to live in.
- GuiA 9y agoThey are principles; meant to be guiding rules of thumb, but of course not meant to be applied blindly and systematically. Otherwise they would be dogma.
- asveikau 9y agoI was going to accuse you of mean and nasty things for being at odds with the list, but then I saw in the list that you have to assume good intentions of other people. Shucks. It seems to me a good list to aspire to and perhaps frequently break a couple. Anything I disagree with in that list, I can also see the other argument, and I can admit that from a certain perspective the list is making the morally correct point. I didn't know much about this guy, but RIP.
- cirgue 9y ago> However, applying them all would make you the worlds biggest doormat. How so? Nowhere does it say "prioritize others desires ahead of your own" or "back down easily" or "tolerate assholes", it just says to be aware that they believe they're right.