Courage and faith (not religion, and not a To Do list) — indeed those are the keys to a fulfilling life because they acknowledge that we're not in control. But I need reminding of the All. The. Time. So thanks for this stirring piece.
And one extra...Julia, I laughed at the listicles/testicle part. That was a thing going around on Medium several years ago. Every time I wrote the word listicle, auto-correct would suggest a correction to the word testicle 😁😁 Thanks for rehashing that memory. It made me smile.
Yeah, I hit 72 this year and over the course of last year spent a significant amount of money hiring and expert to help me solve a problem I was having organizing the 50K family pictures (three generations of prolific photographers in my family have left me with a treasure trove). It was the best money I've spent in awhile.
This gentleman helped me untied the Gordian Knot mess that I had made of my Lightroom database and showed me how to quickly and easily keep the knots at at bay!
Just yesterday, I bought a package of tutorials for Photoshop (I've been using it off and on for 30 years) and in the fourth video I watched, I learned some tricks that I didn't know existed! Again, it was life changing! I was making things WAY to hard.
I guess my point is that unless you are willing to learn EVERY day and search for and find good coaching when you're struggling, you're gonna slowly fade into mediocrity.
This really underscores what @Leo Notenboom has to say about tech and older folks. Tech, as with anything, takes time to learn how to do it. I have plenty of that ahead of me and I can get terribly irritated at myself for not understanding it. That deserves its own article. I love this, Warren.
OK, I'll admit it, I'm a sucker for a good listicle, but not for the reasons you're railing against. In my ongoing reading for my 7 Takeaways (which, I suppose, it a listicle of sort every week), I often find "nuggets" of wisdom in amongst the lists. In no way do I conflate them with X-step programs to do a thing or solve a problem, but rather a compact and concise way of expressing a collection of related concepts in an more readily consumable form. Some people hate the form, some people (👋🏻) like them. Let's not conflate the presentation format (list) with the information being presented (live forever, stay young and sexy, get that job, yadda yadda). It doesn't have to be a listicle to be bull💩.
Your seven nuggets isn't at all what I get irritated by, which you know, Leo. Your points are well -taken. What used to get my goat over on Medium were the listicles which offered a complete life fix if we only did..... Every so often I do get some nugget but I stopped reading them after too much plagiarism and too many bad lists. I'll read yours (trusted source) but your point is taken. Probably my favorite bad listicle was very good science misinterpreted: the stages of grief, which people unfairly interpreted to be linear. Since you have gone through this recently you know precisely what I mean. Great value in Kubler-Ross' work, but people were unwilling to understand the fluid nature of the stages, which continue for the rest of our lives. The temptation of a listicle is that we're done when we reach the end, but when it comes to life, we often circle right back to the beginning (or middle, where we muddle for years at times). Points taken.
Listicles ARE a Venus flytrap. Some time ago I began to refuse to read anything with a number in a title claiming to explain how many ways I could plow the road to clear my life. 😂😂 Bring your own shovel!
Courage and faith (not religion, and not a To Do list) — indeed those are the keys to a fulfilling life because they acknowledge that we're not in control. But I need reminding of the All. The. Time. So thanks for this stirring piece.
My comments mirror yours on this one, Jan.
And one extra...Julia, I laughed at the listicles/testicle part. That was a thing going around on Medium several years ago. Every time I wrote the word listicle, auto-correct would suggest a correction to the word testicle 😁😁 Thanks for rehashing that memory. It made me smile.
Hell. I thought I was being original. Outsmarted by spell check!!
Hahaha spell check tries to outsmart everyone 😁
Yeah, I hit 72 this year and over the course of last year spent a significant amount of money hiring and expert to help me solve a problem I was having organizing the 50K family pictures (three generations of prolific photographers in my family have left me with a treasure trove). It was the best money I've spent in awhile.
This gentleman helped me untied the Gordian Knot mess that I had made of my Lightroom database and showed me how to quickly and easily keep the knots at at bay!
Just yesterday, I bought a package of tutorials for Photoshop (I've been using it off and on for 30 years) and in the fourth video I watched, I learned some tricks that I didn't know existed! Again, it was life changing! I was making things WAY to hard.
I guess my point is that unless you are willing to learn EVERY day and search for and find good coaching when you're struggling, you're gonna slowly fade into mediocrity.
This really underscores what @Leo Notenboom has to say about tech and older folks. Tech, as with anything, takes time to learn how to do it. I have plenty of that ahead of me and I can get terribly irritated at myself for not understanding it. That deserves its own article. I love this, Warren.
OK, I'll admit it, I'm a sucker for a good listicle, but not for the reasons you're railing against. In my ongoing reading for my 7 Takeaways (which, I suppose, it a listicle of sort every week), I often find "nuggets" of wisdom in amongst the lists. In no way do I conflate them with X-step programs to do a thing or solve a problem, but rather a compact and concise way of expressing a collection of related concepts in an more readily consumable form. Some people hate the form, some people (👋🏻) like them. Let's not conflate the presentation format (list) with the information being presented (live forever, stay young and sexy, get that job, yadda yadda). It doesn't have to be a listicle to be bull💩.
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Your seven nuggets isn't at all what I get irritated by, which you know, Leo. Your points are well -taken. What used to get my goat over on Medium were the listicles which offered a complete life fix if we only did..... Every so often I do get some nugget but I stopped reading them after too much plagiarism and too many bad lists. I'll read yours (trusted source) but your point is taken. Probably my favorite bad listicle was very good science misinterpreted: the stages of grief, which people unfairly interpreted to be linear. Since you have gone through this recently you know precisely what I mean. Great value in Kubler-Ross' work, but people were unwilling to understand the fluid nature of the stages, which continue for the rest of our lives. The temptation of a listicle is that we're done when we reach the end, but when it comes to life, we often circle right back to the beginning (or middle, where we muddle for years at times). Points taken.
Listicles ARE a Venus flytrap. Some time ago I began to refuse to read anything with a number in a title claiming to explain how many ways I could plow the road to clear my life. 😂😂 Bring your own shovel!
I love that, Lou. No truer words. I'm all in for a checklist before flight, but to overhaul a life? Not exactly!