What is your comment on living on present?

Its true! Don’t worry about things you don’t need to worry about, and take chances. My fortune cookie yesterday was “Fear is interest on a debt you may not owe”....yes!

Life is mostly luck. Don’t try too hard or too little. Things are going to happen however they’re going to happen regardless what you do or don’t do.

@thanatos I think if you think about it like that then why try at all? If things are gonna happen regardless of how you act and what you do, then whats the motivation? I like to think that I control my future. Of course there are outside forces that I don’t have control over that will affect things in my life, but not the majority of the time.

@deni – That’s a great little fortune you got!

The problem is that there are side effects to many actions. It’s all well and good to say “go for it,” but if going for it limits your options further down the road, is it worth it?

I think it is wiser to choose your chances carefully. Choose the ones that maximize benefit without having huge downsides for failure.

Dale Carnegie takes the high risk, high reward approach. That’s one way of doing it. Slash and burn through your life, I guess. But I don’t know what it means to “go the farthest.” That seems like a potentially very selfish approach that ignores the hurt you might do to others.

It might be a good way to make a lot of money. Is that going the farthest? I’m not sure it’s a good way to make peace. I suppose it might be a good way to create art, but then, artists get so little attention, it hardly matters the risks they take. It can hardly get worse for them, unless they do something illegal.

Dale had a simplistic view of life, but then, he was a salesman, and salesmen do well by encouraging people to make hasty decisions. Salesmen think it’s best if they paint things in black and white. They are full of enthusiasm because they don’t want people to really think.

Dale was a snake oil salesman, and I wouldn’t pay him too much attention.

@aprilsimnel isn’t it! I read and it and was thinking “what does that mean?” then i thought for a while longer and was like “wow, what a great fortune!” now i understand but it took a while, i am slow.

‘The hardest thing to do in this world is live in it…’ I forget where this quote originates from.

You can’t make sense out of nonsense.