Being a leader is 1% the will to lead and 99% the will of others to follow. The best leadership skills in the world get you nowhere if surrounded by those who will follow nobody. The worst leadership skills in the world won’t hold you back if surrounded by those who will follow anybody.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. So are charisma, awkwardness, grace, and leadership.
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Sticks and stones can hurt. Words can hurt too. Being told that your words hurt and that this justifies using sticks and stones on you to keep you quiet hurts the most. Suppressing offensive speech almost always does more harm than allowing it.
A spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down and a spoonful of silliness makes the workday go better.
The twenty-first century will one day be remembered as the age when men were free to appropriate the cultural dress codes of women and enter women’s bathrooms and locker rooms at will, yet white children could not darken their skins to transition into a black person on Halloween.
I find it very curious that people find it so easy to believe one guilty of a crime such as rape, murder, fraud, or insider trading, yet find it so difficult to believe one guilty of a crime such as falsely accusing another of such a crime. Curious indeed.
There are those who say war is never the answer. Strictly speaking, this is not true; sometimes war is the only answer we have left. It’s just that war is the type of answer that only seems to raise more questions.
Dan’s Law of Psychology: For every scientific study establishing the existence of a psychological phenomenon, there is an equal and opposite study refuting it.
Universities that try to protect their students from hearing controversial opinions do them a great disservice. One might be able to make the case that children should be shielded from certain ideas, but university students are adults!
If you are old enough to vote, you are old enough to discuss public policy. If you are old enough that no one should stop you from viewing pornography of your choice, then you are old enough that no one should stop you from listening to political opinions of your choice. If you are old enough to own a gun or join the military or police force, you had better damn well be mature enough to peacefully negotiate with those you disagree with. If you are old enough to be trusted with driving a car or raising children of your own, you are old enough to trust to fill out a ballot. It is time for university students to choose: Are you adults or children? Patriotism and treason have no meaning when a country is at war with itself.
It takes no effort to be smart. To take the default position, the straightforward interpretation, and the obvious conclusion takes no effort at all. Anyone can be smart. It takes a true genius to be a fool. The multiple layers of pretzel logic some people construct in order to argue a point must be exhausting.
Is it PC to say that computers byte?
If someone eats his words, do they become an inside joke? Does anyone ever win the human race? If laughter is good medicine, does bad medicine bring sighed effects? If someone is tongue-tied, does that mean they can knot spell? Why aren't brand-new cars called wreckless? What happens if you break wind while shooting the breeze? If one who creates art is an artist, is one who competes in races a racist? Why aren't tube socks considered unseemly? Are pilots plane-spoken? Does a priest have an altar-ego? Can a bearded man tell a bald-faced lie? Why is it that "out of it" and "out to lunch" have much the same meaning, yet the combination of the two, "out of lunch" means something else entirely? Is a monogram just twenty percent of a pentagram? Which is worse? To eat something off the floor, or to eat something on the floor? Which is worse? To have the crap beaten out of you, or to have the crap beaten into you? Q: What do you call someone who makes a big stink and brings you to court?
A: A sewer! Q: What type of person uses a bike trail after committing a crime? A: A cycle-path Q: What did one magician ask the other? A: A trick question Q: What do you call variables that share an apartment? A: Coefficients Q: What do you call a contractor that uses a hammer? A: A hit man Q: How do you deflate a blimp? A: Remove the letter B. |
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