It’s our prehistoric brains and instincts that trigger wanting that fancy new car now over later.
Man, I love reading MSN articles.
“It’s your prehistoric brain kicking in: Back in the Paleolithic era, a windfall consisted of a large animal, freshly roasted. Lacking dry ice, you had to eat your windfall while it was fresh. Then it was gone. The feeling of “enough” was fleeting.
Thus even today, the desire to pursue moremoremore often gains the upper hand. Knowing and accepting that you have enough is not a natural reflex.”
http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/Savinganddebt/Savemoney/P112488.asp
Craigsilst is a common typo of “Craigslist”. I find a lot of times when I’m typing quickly, I get it wrong and it usually comes out as “Craigsilst”. I do the same typo over and over again. I get jealous of the guy with the domain name craigsilst.com… so much free traffic.
Is destiny something that’s predetermined or something that you make for yourself?
You can say for the sake of argument that no matter what you make for yourself is what your destiny would have been.
However, it sounds like a destiny is a part of your life that is locked and cannot be changed.
“I think it’d be better if you were consistently hard working as opposed to having spikes in ambition and hard work” is along the lines of what my older brother said to me one time that really stuck to me.
The reason I believe that that happens is because I’m a really emotion-based person and also because I’m not very organized. If I had a to-do list (Getting Things Done) and knew exactly what I needed to do each day, it would definitely help. Read more…
Online forums are a great thing because you get a massive amount of information while being able to interact with other people.
Humans are really social beings, and being able to talk a large base about targeted subjects is extremely helpful when you have a question or problem. Read more…