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As soon as I'm done screaming

Hahahahahaha, have your upvote

And buy more things when you realize you need something that's in product V but not product A.

"Hurry up and take the pic before I pass out, you realize how much energy it takes to hold this giant noggin up? I need a nap"

Haha, what a giant. When he lays his head on you, you're going nowhere.

Have you listened to any sports commentators? They all talk about as if it's the most important, world-changing event ever, and every little detail had some significance.

My god, baseball is a game for (as Brits would say) boffins. Fans of the game could put meth-head ravers to sleep. I've worked on more exciting spreadsheets for business planning.

And football has become just as bad, with the incessant pre-game/post-game commentary examining every nuance of a play - "I'm pretty sure if the inner aglet of his left shoe had moved the other way, we'd be talking about a completely different game".

Bread and circuses, appealing to our base nature. The difference between WWE and "actual" sports on tv is only a matter of degree.

This seems relevant.

They got that idea from Alien! It should be called the Face Hugger System...

I think Collins Aerospace designed some of the earliest ejection seats, so this is probably an extension of their military development.

Welp, guess my money is now "unfetchable" for them.

Whole grain bread means it has some whole grain in it.

Bread made from nothing but whole grain is a very heavy, tough loaf that most people today wouldn't like.

Excellent approach, putting that in my book of tools.

I'd also be sure to ask the second person to finish what they were trying to say after person 1 was done.

There are 2 reasons:

1. Never know if they have a different perspective or other ideas. They may also have thought of something while listening.

2. In the help desk world you learn these kinds of people get worse when they get shut down. If you actively engage them (even if you don't really want to), they'll feel heard, and maybe be less likely to feel compelled to interrupt. Plus you come across as a Good Guy® at work.

Besides what others have said, there's also the angle of what you need.

Like vitamins or supplements are only useful for people who are deficient in those things. Perhaps you're just not wired for exercise to make a difference.

I despise working out. It's fucking boring as hell. Give me a mountain bike and I'll crank up hills and down until I can barely walk.

Weirdly, I despise things like running, and yet I have, one time experienced runners high (many years ago).

It's a pretty interesting experience, and yet it wasn't enough to get me to enjoy running.

De-prioritize ideas that don't make your life better. In his book 7 Habits, Stephen Covey presents the concept of Circle of Concern/Circle of Influence. Visualize them as concentric circles - if your Circle of Concern is larger than your Circle of Influence, you'll feel incessant stress at being unable to change things which you have concern for.

This is a way to look at the idea of identifying the things you can change, and what you can't.

Reduce your circle of concern to be within your circle of influence, as much as you can. For example, your concern about other's perspective on religion doesn't serve you. It doesn't help you, it doesn't make your life better, so why walk around worrying about it? It's not something you can actively change, so let it go. This is something I still have to practice, on an almost daily basis.

Wayne Dyer wrote a book about this idea - changing the way we think to remove these dysfunctional thought patterns - called Your Erroneous Zones. He essentially introduces Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques but in layman's language. He very much relies on this idea of Circle of Influence/Concern (without saying as much), as a guide to identifying the usefulness of our thoughts and ideas. It's an older book, probably in your local library, or on Amazon for a couple bucks. If nothing else, it teaches the fundamental ideas of CBT.

Everyone gets a different bag of crap in life, and most of the time we never see what the next person is dealing with. Accepting that this is normal is crucial to being able to "cope" as you put it. Also, having something to work toward, something that's meaningful to you, makes doing what's necessary less difficult, because it's part of something you want. For example, I was once in major debt (my own doing), while going to school. I spent a couple years working every hour I could to get out of that debt. This meant many nights where I slept only a few hours. It was brutal, but I was working towards something that was important to me.

Same reason I don't do a number of things with Linux - I don't have time to play fuck-fuck with tools lacking proper documentation and no clearly defined use-case, capabilities, and limitations.