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>“manifest determination to make things happen.” In my family, my mother always called this as "Reality Bending" (no relation to airbender) -- but they referre
by samstave 3y ago
>“manifest determination to make things happen.”
In my family, my mother always called this as "Reality Bending" (no relation to airbender) -- but they referred to Jobs' "reality distortion field"
My father had this to great effect.
My brother has it to a certain degree.
I used to have it in spades when I was younger - but I have become "will-power" complacent in my older years, which snowballs into to depression.
I certainly feel getting dumber as I age - which is in part to the fact that I had a vast amount of information relating to my job when I was younger in my head - but now a ton of the knowledge I once had on quick access is simply obsolete.
Here is a quick example.
When I was ~20 someone I knew had accidentally changed ALL the display UI elements in Windows 95 to black.
Just by memory I could hit start and navigate to settings and display and fixed it back to normal - all by memory.
I couldnt even tell you where any of those setting were as fast on W95 today even if I had the machine in front of me and access to google.
- rco8786 3y agoYour Windows 95 story definitely resonates. I installed Windows XP so many times that I had not only the pirated key memorized, but I would start moving my mouse toward the next button before it had even appeared on screen. People used to be impressed at how fast I could find the "Eastern Time Zone" option in the combo box.