This is going to be a bit different from my normal technical musings, so if that isn’t your thing, you should probably just skip now and wait for my next article (most likely something Erlang related). I like to thing that no matter how things are, you can always do better. As such I try and take every opportunity to broaden my horizons and learn something new. I’ve recently found Nerd Fitness, it is a Tim Ferris-esque fitness mixed with life improvement blog. This is a comment I left on the latest article Fail More, Suck Less:

Great article! I like the idea of a fail folder (if anyone has a link to the article give me a shout); it reminds me of Rejection Therapy (http://rejectiontherapy.com/). I actually tried the perfect 10 thing earlier in the week because of Rejection Therapy: I had been dragged along to a singles night and my mate was chatting to some girls who weren’t really my type. In most cases like this I usually just have a few too many beers and forget about my worries. This time I didn’t feel like getting drunk, and I also didn’t want to look like a loner standing at the side of the dance floor. As such I decided to just go and dance. There were a few other drunk people making fools of themselves so I figured I couldn’t do much worse. Also it definitely peeked up my mood. After that a few girls came and joined us, you know the type that look real nice but just want the attention. I started dancing with one of them, then got talking and to my surprise she wasn’t the attention seeker I expected, she was actually a really nice girl. Anyway, it ended up with us exchanging numbers and agreeing to go out with me tonight, wish me luck! I think the moral of this is that unless you take risks, nothing exciting is going to happen. Things are just going to stay the same as they are. If you take risks, even if you fail, you learn something, and next time you can use what you have learnt to improve.