Stop worrying
Once acquired, the habit of worrying seems hard to stop. We’re raised to worry and aren’t considered “grown up” until we perfect the art. Teenagers are told: “you’d better start worrying about your future”. If your worries aren’t at least as frequent as your bowel movements, you’re seen as irresponsible, childish, aimless. That’s a “responsible adult” game rule.
To the extent that worrying is learned/conditioned behaviour, it can be undone. There are psychological gimmicks for undoing the worry habit. There are also obstacles.
Centuries-old cultural conditioning has given us a nasty neurosis: the belief that happiness must be “earned”. It can be “earned” only by enduring unpleasantness (eg work, pain, misery). But how do you know if you’ve endured enough unpleasantness to deserve happiness? Another unspoken game rule: “responsible adults” can never endure enough unpleasantness to truly deserve happiness.
Laid on top of the first neurosis is the idea that spending money will make you happy. This is toffee coating on a bad puritan apple. If you spend enough money to give you the (advertised) conditions for happiness, the neurosis emerges in the form of apparently random worries, guilt, “feeling shitty”, etc. Worrying is the easiest and most popular way to negate happiness. (See sidebar interlude).
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Alphabetical Index of Card Games
There is nothing better to do with your time than play card games when you are bored.
Here are some card games you can play when you are bored, a long big list literally from a – z
Witch one is your favorite?
Traditional multi-player card games for which rules are available from this site are listed below in alphabetical order, together with the number of players needed. Alternative numbers of players are given in brackets, so “4 [5] players” means that the game is basically for 4 players, but it is possible for 5 to play.
Alphabetical Index of Card Games
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True Stories in one sentance:
onesentence.org is a site that you can add your own story in one sentance, Its really amazing, and quite fun to do.
even if you don’t have a storie to add, a read is also really good.
add your sentance:www.onesentence.org
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Post it note experiment
Its the end of the day, its hot, most of your work is done. Your boss is walking around looking for people who are not working… What are you busy doing?
Sorting post-its of course.
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218 HD Wallpapers
Here are 218 HD resolution wallpapers. Nerds like you and me have big ass screens so ALL of these wallpapers are available in high resolutions of at least 1900×1200. Plus, each one has been hand picked for quality, not quantity.
http://www.nerdbusiness.com/blog/218-hd-resolution-desktop-wallpapers-nerds
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Multicolor Picture search on Flickr
Here’s something to do when you are bored:
Find any kind of picture on flickr, using this color search.
I think its really amazing how its done:
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