Learning from your experiences will lead to passivity and weakness.

[Veréngárda]

Every ****ing time the concept of learning from my actions and adapting was introduced to me, it was a way of telling me to be more passive, to not try, to not speak up.

This "every failure is a lesson" bull**** disgusts me.. especially since it comes from successful people.. successful people who are telling the people around them to be weaker under the guise of giving advice.

I feel like real advice would be to ignore your failures. Take them in stride. All "learning from it" does is make you walk a 20 foot circle around the failure so that it doesn't happen again.

And before you know it, you're spineless and pathetic and nothing is getting done.

 

[DarwinTaurus]

“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”

That is why you learn from your mistakes.

 

[BillyPilgrim]

It's better to be dumb.

 

[DoubleBarrel]

@Veréngárda - I wonder what's happened in your life that's made you so angry and bitter.

 

[Veréngárda]

@Veréngárda - I wonder what's happened in your life that's made you so angry and bitter.

Being treated like a punk as a youngin for having traits that I'm now trying to get back.. being the scapegoat of my family because I wasn't interested in reflecting perfectly on them with every breath I took.. and my family's connections meaning that treatment bled into my relationships with my peers growing up.

I have another post lined up about how middle children need to shut the **** up about their non-existent "problems."

"I never got mommy's attentio-"
You don't ****ing want it, now enjoy the personality you were actually allowed to develop.