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03 Sep 2020, 5:32 am

Dear_one wrote:
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if i make my mind up on something nothing can change my mind. All that will happen if you try is i'll just end up having a meltdown. Very few people are as stubborn as me. it's a bit unhealthy to be totally honest.


What happens when you run across new evidence you wish you'd had before deciding?
I asked my mother when was the last time she had changed her mind, and she didn't answer, or talk to me again.

Depends sometimes i rigidly continue to hold to it sometimes i don't. Sometimes I do it jut to be defiant. It's not just ideas. Goals too. If I think I can do something I will seek that goal to extreme extents. If it takes me months or years I'll do it.


My vocation was in vehicle engineering, and for most of it, I was a firm believer in rear-engine designs. Then the Mercedes cars blew over at Le Mans like racing boats, and I realized that all light, fast vehicles must work as stable gliders when deprived of traction for any reason. I'm glad I didn't get a chance to kill people with my error.

Sometimes, persistence has served me well, but I've also been reminded of the saying "By the time you get there, there's no there there." All the glamour has become work.
Yes. I find the problem is that I'm always striving for the next goal. i never feel like i accomplish anything. but really what have I accomplished? Nothing. Wheneve ryou reach teh goal it feels like the goal was never a goal in the first place. It always feels liek it's no big deal. I'm glad that it has served me well. and In some ways my persistence is both my greatest strength and my greatest enemy.


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03 Sep 2020, 10:35 pm

^^ Pierre Burton was a very popular Canadian author, and he noted that whenever people would praise one of his books he would think they were mad, because he was finally working on a good one.