“When it looks impossible, look deeper. And then fight like you can win.”
—Aloy, Horizon Forbidden West
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Posts Tagged ‘Thoughts’
Look Deeper
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, inspiration, Thoughts, writing on July 26, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Arguments vs. Distractions
Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, language, linguistic shenanigans, politics, Thoughts on July 24, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Perhaps you keep up with the news or discuss issues with people who have different opinions than you? If so, good for you, but at the same time, it helps to be wary of bad arguments and language traps. How can you see these traps and sidestep them like the distractions they are?
This article highlights some of the most common reasoning flaws you’re likely to encounter, and how to get around them.
Once you know about logical fallacies, you’ll see them everywhere. Why does this matter? Because the more practised you become at spotting them, the better you can be at identifying flaws in people’s thinking, and refocusing dialogue back to an argument’s merit. You’ll also get better at thinking critically yourself.
Because forewarned is forearmed!
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Good Books Only, Please!
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, authors, creativity, genre fiction, GRRM, productivity, Thoughts, Writers, writing on July 23, 2024| Leave a Comment »
We gave a dinner party over the weekend and talk turned (as it does) to entertainment. When, one conversant asked, would the Game of Thrones books ever be published? I don’t know the answer to that question (obviously, but the timeline tells its own tale) but I was interested to read this take by editor and journalist Maddy Meyers.
If George R. R. Martin doesn’t want to write Winds of Winter, that’s OK – Polygon
…without speaking to the man or knowing him personally at all, I am nonetheless prepared to make the case that George R. R. Martin simply does not want to finish writing The Winds of Winter.
He’s just not into it. If he continues to force himself to do it, the end result will probably be a pretty terrible book — and I think he knows that, and that’s why he can’t finish it, because he doesn’t want to publish a bad book. The alternative? We don’t get the book at all. And for me, that’s actually preferable.
Honestly, I agree. While I’d love for him to finish the rest of the series, a bad book is far worse than no book at all.
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Oh, Monday
Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, tech hates me today, Thoughts, ugh on July 22, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Well, I have no idea what happened, but my inbox just got wiped. Oh, Monday! My fabulous story idea will have to wait while I clean up this mess.
Just another barrier on the road to success? Sure, let’s go with that:)
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Helpful Site of the Day
Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, Thoughts on July 21, 2024| 1 Comment »
Enjoy Now
Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, Thoughts on July 20, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Work Proceeds!
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, Thoughts, Writers, writing on July 19, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Grandiosity lessens as work proceeds.
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist.
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On Resurrecting Habits
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, creativity, habits, persistence, Thoughts, Writers, writing on July 18, 2024| Leave a Comment »
A lot of my work relies on habit. Be it the day job, chores, calling the parental units, these daily posts or other creative work, I made space for everything in my week. When the time came, I’d do the thing. Easy and good, a puzzle with all the pieces in place.
The problem with a system like that? Change. When one of those pieces breaks, is lost, grows in size, or (running out of puzzle-related associations, but you get the idea) otherwise shifts in ways that alter the system, the associated habits can break too.
For a long time, my habit was to spend an hour or so writing with breakfast, then shift over to the day job. But when my work schedule changed, my dedicated writing time disappeared too.
In sum: I’m not writing enough. Grr.
Time to get back to basics and rebuild my schedule.
Step one? Remember that urgency isn’t everything. Make time for what’s important.
“Everything is habit-forming, so make sure what you do is what you want to be doing.”
— Wilt Chamberlain
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Tuesday and Chill
Posted in Likes, Science!, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, chill, Thoughts, Tuesdays on July 16, 2024| Leave a Comment »
On this hot day, here’s a little chill.
Relax to Mesmerizing Aerial Views of Iceland’s ‘Glacial Flour’ Pulsing Through Waterways — Colossal
As glaciers expand and recede, they have the capacity to grind rock so fine that geologists refer to the pulverized material as glacial flour. It slips down rivers and into lakes, carrying the otherworldly turquoise hue through a unique and resilient ecosystem. In Iceland, the blue-green color is complemented by rivers that flow yellow, thanks to sulfur from nearby volcanoes, or red from dissolved ferrous iron—also known as bog iron. Coursing over rock and black sand, the streams take on dazzling, rhythmic patterns.
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Like a Kid in a Ball Pit
Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, Thoughts on July 15, 2024| Leave a Comment »
It’s Monday and all but here’s wishing you at least one moment of pure joy today.
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