Random thoughts from today, September 28, 2019. Tree Frogs, children's glasses, Anti-Insight, Analysis of Ambiguous Data, Glass Half Full...

Humans are the same way as other animals, where bright colours and pretty-looking surface adornment can be a protection. It can prevent others from trying to take things away from you, can make you more intimidating, and make others afraid of what will happen to them if they were to attack or eat you. Like tree  frogs if you stand out people are afraid of you, and like birds if you don't look pretty people will feel bold enough to try to threaten you.

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It's ironic but wearing children's-sized glasses means looking less like a child when you have a very small face. The hard part is finding ones that aren't plastic purple Dora the Explorer and Tonka.

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Whether you go with MBTI, without MBTI, MBTI but "I am a mix between two types", MBTI but I only list one letter for simplicity... whatever you go with, just don't be anti-insightful.

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Strengths: "analysis of ambiguous data"
In other words, I'm good at looking back on situations that aren't very clear-cut and being able to figure out exactly what went wrong and which part to regret.

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I've always wanted to be able to log into one of those pop-up-from-the-browser authorization logins and actually have the credentials to log in. I do, this is legitimately my username and pw why are you not letting me see the expired paaage

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The way I learned about optimism was not “expecting the best to happen because that’s what you want”. Rather it was to “see the glass half full” so that your focus is not on what you don’t have, but on how to make the most of what you do have. This replaces despair with hope.

We should opt to come up with a new title other than optimist to describe someone who has a positive attitude, because it sounds like a common definition is that optimists live simply with the expectation that things will turn out favourably, so it makes people who aren't pessimistic sound delusional.
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(throwback)
Life is like a game of cards. We do our best with the hand we’ve been dealt, and in the end the goal is to have all our cards on the table.

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For a few years my bio has been "I'd say I left my heart in Mongolia but have never actually been there before." When I go to Mongolia the only downside is I won't be able to use that anymore. Guess the new one will be  "Left my heart in Mongolia. #RIPmyoldbio."

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It is incredible what a good night's sleep can do for you.

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Peeeeeeeas and peirogieeeeees

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