24th April 2007, 8:01 PM
(This post was last modified: 24th April 2007, 10:37 PM by Dark Jaguar.)
I've been hearing a lot about this book from lazy people lately.
As far as I can tell, the secret is if you speak well and tell people what they want to hear, you can get a lot of money.
So basically people seem to come up to me (because apparently I seem the sort of person who needs this amazing and completely true information) that the secret to realizing dreams is to wish really hard.
To be more accurate, positive thinking makes dreams come true, and it works, as they often say "100% of the time, no exceptions". I like those numbers, as it makes it so easy to test it. So, I ask how many of their dreams came true. Well fantastic, here's some fun results. After thinking positive, the results aren't always instant, like riches, you may still be in debt for several months, but maybe one day you find like a $20 on the ground or get a raise, and bam, that's PROOF that it was the positive thinking that did it...
Ever wonder if these people are really as open minded as they think they are? I always seem to think farther and more expansively than these people do about their OWN crazy ideas. Here's a fun example. Apparently "proof" comes in the form of an unsourced short story about an unnamed man in some random city. Aside from sounding like something you read in a chain letter about those people who didn't forward it, basically here's the thing. "A man" who was constantly worried about being late for work hit every single red light, but another man who had a much more positive outlook got a green light all the way through. Let's ignore things like the fact that this is totally unsourced and could, when it's just a SINGLE sample, easily be explained by coincidence (apparentely concepts like "mass statistics gathering and proper probability analysis" are beyond these people). What strikes me as completely narrow minded and self absorbed about this story is the complete lack of any consideration for all the OTHER people on the road. I'm not talking about being rude to others for controlling the lights. I mean, am I to understand this ONE guy's positive mindset overrides the mind sets of every single other person on the road at the same time? Why that guy? And what of the other guy? That ONE guy's negative thoughts overrides everyone else's thoughts?
Anyway, I am shocked anyone is even paying any attention to this nonsense. I guess I shouldn't be surprised. Here's a little enlightenment. If you really want to accomplish anything, instead of sitting around wishing for it to drop into your lap, try actually working to achieve said goals. That has a statistically significant chance of success.
As a final aside, I'm sick of the "well it couldn't hurt to try right?" sorts. Yes, it COULD hurt, I'd be living a lie by doing it and depriving myself of full appreciation of the world for what it is. THAT is a harm.
As far as I can tell, the secret is if you speak well and tell people what they want to hear, you can get a lot of money.
So basically people seem to come up to me (because apparently I seem the sort of person who needs this amazing and completely true information) that the secret to realizing dreams is to wish really hard.
To be more accurate, positive thinking makes dreams come true, and it works, as they often say "100% of the time, no exceptions". I like those numbers, as it makes it so easy to test it. So, I ask how many of their dreams came true. Well fantastic, here's some fun results. After thinking positive, the results aren't always instant, like riches, you may still be in debt for several months, but maybe one day you find like a $20 on the ground or get a raise, and bam, that's PROOF that it was the positive thinking that did it...
Ever wonder if these people are really as open minded as they think they are? I always seem to think farther and more expansively than these people do about their OWN crazy ideas. Here's a fun example. Apparently "proof" comes in the form of an unsourced short story about an unnamed man in some random city. Aside from sounding like something you read in a chain letter about those people who didn't forward it, basically here's the thing. "A man" who was constantly worried about being late for work hit every single red light, but another man who had a much more positive outlook got a green light all the way through. Let's ignore things like the fact that this is totally unsourced and could, when it's just a SINGLE sample, easily be explained by coincidence (apparentely concepts like "mass statistics gathering and proper probability analysis" are beyond these people). What strikes me as completely narrow minded and self absorbed about this story is the complete lack of any consideration for all the OTHER people on the road. I'm not talking about being rude to others for controlling the lights. I mean, am I to understand this ONE guy's positive mindset overrides the mind sets of every single other person on the road at the same time? Why that guy? And what of the other guy? That ONE guy's negative thoughts overrides everyone else's thoughts?
Anyway, I am shocked anyone is even paying any attention to this nonsense. I guess I shouldn't be surprised. Here's a little enlightenment. If you really want to accomplish anything, instead of sitting around wishing for it to drop into your lap, try actually working to achieve said goals. That has a statistically significant chance of success.
As a final aside, I'm sick of the "well it couldn't hurt to try right?" sorts. Yes, it COULD hurt, I'd be living a lie by doing it and depriving myself of full appreciation of the world for what it is. THAT is a harm.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)