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Permission to Suck

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Re: Permission to Suck

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Post by biscarch »

batgaijin wrote: post #28
mcphilip wrote: post #17

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>That sounds boring but manageable. 'Thinking about nothing' seems impossible and stupid at the same time; people who do the disservice of saying that should be slapped. Sounds like you could use some time meditating about your hostile attitude :) Seriously though, so much of eastern thought related to mediation involves paradoxes that a practitioner reflects on in order to grow. Think about nothing Observe your thou…

I am hostile because I put off seriously trying meditation for a long time in life simply because of how poorly it had been explained and how religions and hippies co-opted it.

It sounds like you let other's understandings create your own, instead of using your own interests to drive your understanding.

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Post by vampirechicken »

UnoriginalGuy wrote: post #35
levesque wrote: post #34

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Well reddit is also a lot of this when you dig in the smaller communities. Sure, if you stay on r/AdviceAnimals you are bound to be disappointed ;)

There are tons of cool communities but none that I've found yet about starting a small business or similar. If you know of any along the same themes as HN then I'd love to join them.

startupguild.net is a yammer site started by TechZing's Justin Vincent.

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Post by aufreak3 »

I used to refer to this in some conversations as the "permission to be less than perfect", but "permission to suck" is crisper :)

The "permission to suck" pill needs to be taken along with the "desire to improve" pill. In other words, pay less attention to your current state and more to the trajectory - i.e. where you're heading. If the heading is right, then it is only a matter of time before you reach an arbitrary benchmark of your choosing.

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Post by prezjordan »

This especially resonated with me. I wrote about a similar topic [1] a few weeks ago, but being a college student - I love this "permission to suck" idea. It gives me the ability to stop being ashamed of my crappy projects, knowing that I'll get better. I find most college students simply don't work on stuff outside of school - probably because they don't give themselves permission to suck - and it really affects their abilities in the long run.

[1]: http://jscal.es/2012/10/12/you-oughta-be-ashamed/

Re: Permission to Suck

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Post by kadavy »

UnoriginalGuy wrote: post #33

Do you know what I like about HNs compared to other sites (e.g. Reddit, /., etc)? It is constructive. There are a bunch of people who are interested in self improvement, trying things, failing, and then picking themselves up and trying again. That's rare. You don't find that in many communities. Most of the time it is just negativity and "you can't," "you shouldn't," "here are all the flaws," etc. Hopefully this grou…

I just found this on the "DecidingToBeBetter" subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/DecidingToBeBetter/comments/12jh16/p...

One comment: '"Permission to suck" is quite the erotic sentence :)'

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