#improve decision making

[fastlane-freedom]

The Four Villains of Decision-Making: Fastlane Freedom

Decision-making is a part of our daily lives, influencing the choices we make and the outcomes we experience. However, making decisions is not always easy and can be filled with challenges. In this blog, we will dive into the world of decision-making and identify four common problems that can make it difficult. “In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next…

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

[pucksandpower]

… and so it continues.

The way that Williams Racing has nearly completely lost the lovable underdog reputation they have carefully cultivated over the last few seasons in record time needs to be studied.

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

are you really besties if you can't share a joint

[alecz-obssesionz]

˚₊ A treat to myself for being able to draw again ₊˚🪻🌹

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[chicago-geniza]

Can I admit something very silly. Watched enough Downton to fixate on the morning/evening toilette routine at the vanity and observe that everyone moisturized their hands multiple times a day so I bought argan oil hand cream at the Korean market and now my hands are soft and supple. Thank you Downton Abbey

[fluffs-n-stuffs]

_____ used Destiny Bond! _____ is hoping to take his attacker down with him!

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(Belatedly) celebrating the one-year anniversary of the 'Destiny Bond' comic with a rare, fully-illustrated piece. A bit of extra context and rambly thoughts under the cut 🫶💖💕

A little over a year ago, I posted the first part of the Destiny Bond comic, originally intended to be a one-off doodle exploring the consequences of Morty's prophetic abilities on his relationship with Eusine.

That sketchy doodle of mine ended up being a whole narrative project spanning across a few months, before I eventually took a pause on it to focus on my mental health (having reached a low earlier in the year).

It was a daring enough project in and of itself, especially with how I had spontaneously taken it on when I was still recovering from a years-long burnout with 2D art. Though (temporarily) stopping sooner than I had hoped, I can confidently say that this little comic project of mine had helped to rekindle my love for drawing as a whole, and had further lead me to meeting some of the most wonderful people and friends in this small corner of the Pokémon fandom (whom also happen to be obsessed with these two silly guys from the GSC/HGSS games). It's a project I hold dearly to my heart, and one that I hope to revisit and continue once I feel ready to do so; as the story has yet to truly kick off (I'm not even joking we're still in the prologue technically I'm yelling /lh).

I hope to be able to share the rest of this story with you all one day, in whatever new form it'll take as. For now, I want to say thank you, from the deepest parts of my heart, for supporting this passion project of mine - and to assure you to tune in for the future of this title. 👀✨

[eddiegettingshot]

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[drdemonprince]

your post about only communicating the minimum needed reminded me of the gricean maxims (concept in linguistics describing how people communicate)! your advice was very similar to the maxim of quantity :)

From the UPenn School of Arts & Sciences site:

Grice's Maxims

The maxim of quantity, where one tries to be as informative as one possibly can, and gives as much information as is needed, and no more.

The maxim of quality, where one tries to be truthful, and does not give information that is false or that is not supported by evidence.

The maxim of relation, where one tries to be relevant, and says things that are pertinent to the discussion.

The maxim of manner, when one tries to be as clear, as brief, and as orderly as one can in what one says, and where one avoids obscurity and ambiguity.

[flufflecat]

I was reading back over the "better world" section of journal 3 and am now absolutely convinced that this alternate reality is either a dystopia or doomed to become one

It's practically a thesis of Ford's character that he should not, under any circumstances, be allowed to accomplish his personal goals. His research, the portal, his desire to be worshiped as a paragon of intellect, even his one man quest to kill Bill would have resulted in a bad end for the rest of the characters if he actually succeeded at any of them. So a world where he was able to push Stan aside, bypass any of his necessary character development, and power up a working version of his most dangerous, grandiose, and idiotically conceived project? Bad news all around.

We only see about 3 pages of this dimension and Ford's in full rose tinted glasses mode the whole time, but in those 3 pages we learn that Parallel Ford and McGucket managed to casually destroy an entire dimension. Oopsies!!

And after that, as far as we can tell the info we're given, they're still using the portal. Their own scientific hubris, which is Ford's biggest flaw and the thing that caused like all of his problems, destroyed an entire reality and our Ford skims right over that. In the very next paragraph he mourns the fact that he can't stay in this perfect dimension and live out his dreams. What's the wanton destruction of an infinite number of nameless randos in the name of SCIENCE and EGO?!

These are necessary stumbling blocks when attaining success!

Ford is very obviously too blinded by his own ego to see that tampering with alternate dimensions to boost your own social cred is a bad idea whether he does it or Bill does it, but I'd give this dimension a few years tops before Parallel Ford either blows the entire thing up or crowns himself as scientific dictator supreme

[froschli96]

you know, i always find it really funny when dudebros complain about syndicate and odyssey being too "jokey" or not "taking its characters seriously" or whatever…

like, did y'all collectively sleep through "it's-a me, mario!", "i meant besides vaginas", ezio inventing the latte, bartolomeo's... just... *gestures vaguely* entire character, etc?

like, it's fine to have preferences of course, i myself prefer a more serious and grounded tone, but these are usually the same people who tout the ezio trilogy as "peak assassin's creed", call ac1 a glorified tech demo and hate on connor for being "too serious and boring", like? make it make sense!

[drrav3nb]

KIM YOUNG KWANG as SEO DO YOUNG in EVILIVE (2023)

[goldkirk]

I'm so proud of myself about finances in the past couple months. I still struggle with money but I did enough meditation and journaling and practicing about it to make myself able to actually face my loans and credit cards and savings and bills and start really truly organizing and addressing them for the first time in years instead of just flying by the seat of my pants.

Like. This is a huge deal for me. I've felt like I'm in deadly danger every time I've tried to think about money for years and years. I'm finally able to look it in the face and stare it down and start to organize and plan on purpose instead of just keeping up with the minimum to stay afloat. I'm so proud of myself.

It's still a refrain of "GUILT (funny link)" every time I think about money but I'm able to actually make spreadsheets and face the numbers and monthly tracking again, and even make a new full budget which I haven't been able to do in ages.

still feel guilt, overwhelm, and helplessness, but no longer feel as much deep elemental shame and terror. that's progress baby

[neallo]

abruptly realizing i dropped out of grad school like a year ago <3 yay!!!

[clowngore]

mental illness/personality disorder acceptance isn't "i should be able to do what i want forever with no consequences because of my disorder, and if you get mad at me for being an asshole then you are being ableist"

instead it's not believing in thought crime. it's not thinking that low empathy makes you a bad person. it's not judging attention-seeking behavior. it's not enforcing ableist societal standards on people who can't meet them. it's being understanding when people are trying their best. it's not thinking that doing bad things makes you irredeemably a bad person forever, and supporting people who want to do better.

you do not deserve to have your harmful behaviors 100% excused just because you are mentally ill. you are still hurting people. you don't have the moral right to hurt people, and it doesn't make you superior to not want to get better.

[isfjmel-phleg]

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