Attitude adjustment/Skills inventory
Jan. 9th, 2006 01:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
featherynscaleAs I mentioned, yesterday was a metric goatload of fun. But, as sometimes occurs, there was a dark spot in the day, when ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
adammaker said something like, "I almost never say, 'Wow, I don't want to learn how to do that'". And then, there was a chorus of assent from my other two-thirds, and I had to look at everybody and say, "Well, I do. I say that all the time." There are a lot of things I don't want to learn how to do, or at least don't want to learn how to do in that exact moment.
I think this is because I am fundamentally lazy. And, because of that, I find that I can't do nearly so many nifty things as most of my friends can, to say nothing of the lovely people who are my partners. And that's sort of depressing, and I generally wander around feeling inferior to people. So bleh.
So I was thinking I'd do two things here. One is to find some new things that I do want to learn how to do, and start learning how to do them. The other is to list out the skills I already have, so I can have some actual data to bitch and moan about, instead of just anecdotally bitching and moaning. There will eventually be a link to that list in this entry (I'm going to post it publicly, but backdated, so that if you're interested, you can see, but so that my neuroses will not clog up your friendslist if you aren't interested).
EDIT: It's here, if you care.
adammaker said something like, "I almost never say, 'Wow, I don't want to learn how to do that'". And then, there was a chorus of assent from my other two-thirds, and I had to look at everybody and say, "Well, I do. I say that all the time." There are a lot of things I don't want to learn how to do, or at least don't want to learn how to do in that exact moment. I think this is because I am fundamentally lazy. And, because of that, I find that I can't do nearly so many nifty things as most of my friends can, to say nothing of the lovely people who are my partners. And that's sort of depressing, and I generally wander around feeling inferior to people. So bleh.
So I was thinking I'd do two things here. One is to find some new things that I do want to learn how to do, and start learning how to do them. The other is to list out the skills I already have, so I can have some actual data to bitch and moan about, instead of just anecdotally bitching and moaning. There will eventually be a link to that list in this entry (I'm going to post it publicly, but backdated, so that if you're interested, you can see, but so that my neuroses will not clog up your friendslist if you aren't interested).
EDIT: It's here, if you care.
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perhaps I'm a fuddy-duddy
Date: 2006-01-09 08:20 pm (UTC)It's a matter of knowing that my personal time and energy are finite things. Agonizing about whether I'm inferior because I can't do Thing X takes up just as much energy as actually learning it. If I'm not going to worry about learning it, then I won't worry about not worrying about learning it. I think it's perfectly acceptable to be Not Interested.
I do not see this as laziness, but rather as a defense against the Scatterbrained Bunny that I would become if I never made a choice to exclude something. As a response strategy, it means I'm conserving my energy for something that matters more. If I keep jumping from new thing to new thing, then I'll never have time for what I've already got. But that's just me. :)