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Essay talk:How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Being Wrong
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I love these life stories by RW peoples. I find them fascinating. One day I may write my own. (Now that you've been warned, you can avoid reading it) lol. You've made a great start! One suggestion: Right now your essay is all one long block of text, perhaps sub-headers, section titles or something like that would break it into more easily readable sections. Carry on! Refugeetalk page 21:24, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
- No way, I'd read it. Yeah, I wrote this in a normal word processor. I wish I could format this to look different some other way, but if I do it would look different from every other page on the wiki and that's blaaah. But yeah, some headers might be good. *gets on that* ±
KnightOfTL;DRgarrulous en guerre 21:28, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
- @Knight The ability to realize and admit to being wrong is very very rare. Good essay over all. @Gee You should write one. ТyYes? 01:39, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
- I was going to write more essays, too. This seems to be a useful and constructive place to put them, so long as they are related to mission in some way. I see some grammar/spelling errors in this one already though. Blah. This is why you should always 1) draft, and 2) never edit right after writing a draft. It all runs together. ±KnightOfTL;DRmore at 11 03:43, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
- I actually read Dragon's Milk but can hardly remember much. Um... the baby dragons floated when they slept. And one died at the end, its last words: "Hungry". That's about all I remember. Тyeh? 03:45, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
- I was so mad after that little incident I vowed never to read that book because it must have been a stupid book anyway. So I really have no idea what it was about. Only that little me as very distressed by the idea that dragons could have functional mammaries. ±KnightOfTL;DRcritical thinking is the key to success! 03:47, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
- Something about a girl raising baby dragons? It was at least ten years ago. ТyLonely. Ever so lonely. 03:48, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
- It's OK, I know even less of what Dragon's Blood was about. It had dragons in it, I bet. And it may or may not have had blood in it. That's all I can really tell you. ±KnightOfTL;DRjust shut up already 03:51, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
- Dealing With Dragons was rather good though. ТyPlease do not click on this 03:53, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
- That was an awesome read. Haha. I used to freak out when I was younger about everything and eventually became a nut over perfect grades and always being right, over everything. Now I'm just "OH! Okay. Nevermind then. My mistake!" And with a quick smile and laugh, it's all over. So much easier than worrying over every petty little thing.--Dumpling (talk) 03:57, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
- !!!!! I loved that series! It remains one of my favorites to this day! It really captured my heart for having protagonists that focused on being sensible. Probably earned +5 respect points from me right off the bat for that. @ Dumpling, yeah, it really is. For me, avoiding negative association with being wrong probably made me neurotic. Learning that being incorrect wasn't a manner of personal worth or honor was seriously a giant improvement in my quality of life. Sometimes I see people flipping out over being wrong and I wonder if they are as comfortable with themselves as they could be. ±KnightOfTL;DRgarrulous en guerre 04:00, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
- !!!!! I loved that series! It remains one of my favorites to this day! It really captured my heart for having protagonists that focused on being sensible. Probably earned +5 respect points from me right off the bat for that. @ Dumpling, yeah, it really is. For me, avoiding negative association with being wrong probably made me neurotic. Learning that being incorrect wasn't a manner of personal worth or honor was seriously a giant improvement in my quality of life. Sometimes I see people flipping out over being wrong and I wonder if they are as comfortable with themselves as they could be. ±
- That was an awesome read. Haha. I used to freak out when I was younger about everything and eventually became a nut over perfect grades and always being right, over everything. Now I'm just "OH! Okay. Nevermind then. My mistake!" And with a quick smile and laugh, it's all over. So much easier than worrying over every petty little thing.--Dumpling (talk) 03:57, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
- Dealing With Dragons was rather good though. ТyPlease do not click on this 03:53, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
- It's OK, I know even less of what Dragon's Blood was about. It had dragons in it, I bet. And it may or may not have had blood in it. That's all I can really tell you. ±
- Something about a girl raising baby dragons? It was at least ten years ago. ТyLonely. Ever so lonely. 03:48, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
- I was so mad after that little incident I vowed never to read that book because it must have been a stupid book anyway. So I really have no idea what it was about. Only that little me as very distressed by the idea that dragons could have functional mammaries. ±
- I actually read Dragon's Milk but can hardly remember much. Um... the baby dragons floated when they slept. And one died at the end, its last words: "Hungry". That's about all I remember. Тyeh? 03:45, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
- I was going to write more essays, too. This seems to be a useful and constructive place to put them, so long as they are related to mission in some way. I see some grammar/spelling errors in this one already though. Blah. This is why you should always 1) draft, and 2) never edit right after writing a draft. It all runs together. ±
- @Knight The ability to realize and admit to being wrong is very very rare. Good essay over all. @Gee You should write one. ТyYes? 01:39, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
Funny, I had (have?) a similar fear of being wrong, but it led me into pathological doubt instead, a la "What if Lee Harvey Oswald was innocent? What if aliens really did build the pyramids? What if we are really just brains in vats, inside The Matrix, maaaaan?" Nebuchadnezzar (talk) 04:17, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
- In those cases I'd be endeavouring to actually answer the questions, even as hypotheticals, rather than just JAQ it. Because it seems that once you start providing answers you can get a lot more done, providing you're brave enough to admit the answer might well be "what a fucking stupid question".
moral 10:46, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
- But what if those answers are wrong?! You see the problem here? Nebuchadnezzar (talk) 16:34, 3 April 2012 (UTC)