“Once I build this trebuchet, I’ll never be bored again cuz I’ll always have this super awesome trebuchet to play with!”
*makes trebuchet*
*gets bored after a day*
I think this is awesome! You learned and experienced many things. Maybe superficially, but it still beats doing something unproductive (like browsing web) every day instead.
Imagine you had a diary, and every time you did something like this, right before you got bored, you would make a photo of the trebuchet and put it in that diary. And the air cannon on the next page. Etc. Just my personal opinion, but I think that would be a very nice diary.
One day I brought some of my lock-picking stuff to school. Some kid at the lunch table said he was impressed that I did lock picking.
If on that day you had an opportunity to show that kid your then lock-picking skills, do you believe the kid would have been impressed? (Would you pass that “bottom 10%” line?) If the answer is yes, then from my perspective, you deserved to feel proud, and the other kid was just jelly.
“Yeah, he’ll be on lock picking this week, then probably back to magic next week, then on to something else the next week.”
So, you’d be better than your critic at lock-picking and magic and many other things. Yep, definitely jelly. :D
Your critic had a valid point that you had a few skills, but you were no Einstein. To put things in context, was he?
I totally agree that the dude’s critique didn’t have much substance. That example, and several others, are all things were now I can see and feel the lack of substance. It was very real then though. In writing this I tried to emphasize that aspect, the way there wasn’t much putting things in context, the way that by strategy for dealing with people made it very hard to go “k, jelly person critiquing with no substance”.
I think this is awesome! You learned and experienced many things. Maybe superficially, but it still beats doing something unproductive (like browsing web) every day instead.
Imagine you had a diary, and every time you did something like this, right before you got bored, you would make a photo of the trebuchet and put it in that diary. And the air cannon on the next page. Etc. Just my personal opinion, but I think that would be a very nice diary.
If on that day you had an opportunity to show that kid your then lock-picking skills, do you believe the kid would have been impressed? (Would you pass that “bottom 10%” line?) If the answer is yes, then from my perspective, you deserved to feel proud, and the other kid was just jelly.
So, you’d be better than your critic at lock-picking and magic and many other things. Yep, definitely jelly. :D
Your critic had a valid point that you had a few skills, but you were no Einstein. To put things in context, was he?
That certainly would have made a cool diary :)
I totally agree that the dude’s critique didn’t have much substance. That example, and several others, are all things were now I can see and feel the lack of substance. It was very real then though. In writing this I tried to emphasize that aspect, the way there wasn’t much putting things in context, the way that by strategy for dealing with people made it very hard to go “k, jelly person critiquing with no substance”.