Some of us are more grasshoppers, some more like the ants.
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Some of us are more grasshoppers, some more like the ants. Some can live in the present, some can think and worry only about the future.
If you're always an ant you might never get around to living. Your whole life could be consumed by planning, by risk avoidance. If you are a grasshopper you may be blindsided by winter, never understanding why sometimes you have enough and other times you starve.
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Some of us are more grasshoppers, some more like the ants. Some can live in the present, some can think and worry only about the future.
If you're always an ant you might never get around to living. Your whole life could be consumed by planning, by risk avoidance. If you are a grasshopper you may be blindsided by winter, never understanding why sometimes you have enough and other times you starve.
I lean more towards "ant" (shocker I know, wow) and really it took me a long time to understand what I could learn from "grasshoppers" -- the fact that I at first thought such people could teach me *nothing* meant that what I have discovered I can learn is vast and it's taking a long time to process it all.
I am going about it systematically. So I will miss nothing. Soon I will fully understand how to implement "spontaneity" and the best applications thereof.
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I lean more towards "ant" (shocker I know, wow) and really it took me a long time to understand what I could learn from "grasshoppers" -- the fact that I at first thought such people could teach me *nothing* meant that what I have discovered I can learn is vast and it's taking a long time to process it all.
I am going about it systematically. So I will miss nothing. Soon I will fully understand how to implement "spontaneity" and the best applications thereof.
optimized, systematic, spontaneity
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optimized, systematic, spontaneity
@futurebird it is about time.
Do you have 4 plans about what is going to happen tomorrow? One is maximum probability, but the other 3 are if/then plans?
The short range thinker doesn't bother. They have 1 plan, and if confused will just follow a crowd that seems to be going the same direction. The secondary plan is always follow the crowd & "wing it". It is not super conducive to survival in a difficult situation, but most events are not about survival. Winging it saves time and memory space.
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@futurebird it is about time.
Do you have 4 plans about what is going to happen tomorrow? One is maximum probability, but the other 3 are if/then plans?
The short range thinker doesn't bother. They have 1 plan, and if confused will just follow a crowd that seems to be going the same direction. The secondary plan is always follow the crowd & "wing it". It is not super conducive to survival in a difficult situation, but most events are not about survival. Winging it saves time and memory space.
@futurebird imagine a bird flying in the wind. It doesn't know and can't see all the little swirls. It flies with a general goal, but progress is a series of constant, dynamic adjustments. You drive a car to your destination, but stay on the road and in your lane with a constant series of unplanned dynamic adjustments. They are too small and too numerous to anticipate, but cumulatively they are most of the trip.
It is not my way, but I have learned to appreciate it. Spontaneity as necessity.
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Some of us are more grasshoppers, some more like the ants. Some can live in the present, some can think and worry only about the future.
If you're always an ant you might never get around to living. Your whole life could be consumed by planning, by risk avoidance. If you are a grasshopper you may be blindsided by winter, never understanding why sometimes you have enough and other times you starve.
@futurebird That is why ants should marry grasshoppers.
I'm an ant, carefully planning for a future. My brain is stuck on where I need to be 6 months from now if not longer. I'd forget to buy food or eat, as I get too bored with the daily grind and don't find it interesting, but hey, I prepped for upcoming trip. I go crazy if I can't plan for our security.
My husband is a grasshopper. He makes our household tick and about has a nervous breakdown if he has to do things on a different day of the week. Loves running errands. He thrives in the daily grind but would forget anything not immediate, like paying bills.
So it works great. We each are great where the other is weak. He monitors that we have toiletpaper, I make sure the taxes get paid.
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@futurebird That is why ants should marry grasshoppers.
I'm an ant, carefully planning for a future. My brain is stuck on where I need to be 6 months from now if not longer. I'd forget to buy food or eat, as I get too bored with the daily grind and don't find it interesting, but hey, I prepped for upcoming trip. I go crazy if I can't plan for our security.
My husband is a grasshopper. He makes our household tick and about has a nervous breakdown if he has to do things on a different day of the week. Loves running errands. He thrives in the daily grind but would forget anything not immediate, like paying bills.
So it works great. We each are great where the other is weak. He monitors that we have toiletpaper, I make sure the taxes get paid.
It works for cleaning too. Husband does the dishes every day, but to get him to consider where things should be stored? what furniture we should own? A better way to organize the pantry? These are painful incomprehensible tasks fortunately I like doing them.
