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Have anyone ever heard of the 90/10 rule? (or maybe it's the 90/10 principle or whatever). I got an email one day (from Bam, if I remembered correctly) about this remarkable 90/10 rule which, among others, 'holds true for almost everything that happens around people'. Or something like that. Am working from memory here.
Anyway
The rule basically stated that everyone in this world have a 90% control of what happens around her/himself. The other 10% are what we might call the uncontrollable variables. An example given was*; one morning when you were ready to go to work and was having breakfast, your daughter spilled something on your shirt. Your reaction was; 1)yell at her (which is a practice that is arguably energy sapping and time consuming) and then 2)gets grumpy and ask in a non-polite manner for your wife to get you a new shirt. And your reaction might very well result in: 1)an unhappy daughter and 2) an unhappy wife (at least for that one day). And because you spent time yelling, you were late to work and got some stick from the boss. And your mood -which is not good since your energy had been spent negatively- worsen. And this very event -a minor one if you asked me- might very well have a long(er) term effect, like daughter and wife hating you and the boss looking at you in a different light (not a good kind of light, while at that). One whole shitty day (90% or more), all because of a minor event that might have taken less than 5 seconds to occur (10% or less).
Now, imagine what would happen if, after something has been spilled on your shirt, you quickly tell your daughter to be careful next time, sparing the yelling, and, because you're not exactly grumpy then, asks your wife for a new shirt, politely. Done quickly, you might even get to work on time. Good day for the family, no?
This practice of rewriting what people forwarded me can be considered a form of plagiarizing.
Anyway
I originally wanted to write about anger, something that we can very well do without (as a matter of fact, the title of the post is with regards to anger, that is; go away, anger!). But now, somehow, I've lost the desire to write about anger. So here's what you should do; understand what I've written so far and relate it to how we all can very well do without anger, any way you see fit.
And we can all have a merry plagiarizing day
* :- this is, of course, conceptually, just an example.
Anyway
The rule basically stated that everyone in this world have a 90% control of what happens around her/himself. The other 10% are what we might call the uncontrollable variables. An example given was*; one morning when you were ready to go to work and was having breakfast, your daughter spilled something on your shirt. Your reaction was; 1)yell at her (which is a practice that is arguably energy sapping and time consuming) and then 2)gets grumpy and ask in a non-polite manner for your wife to get you a new shirt. And your reaction might very well result in: 1)an unhappy daughter and 2) an unhappy wife (at least for that one day). And because you spent time yelling, you were late to work and got some stick from the boss. And your mood -which is not good since your energy had been spent negatively- worsen. And this very event -a minor one if you asked me- might very well have a long(er) term effect, like daughter and wife hating you and the boss looking at you in a different light (not a good kind of light, while at that). One whole shitty day (90% or more), all because of a minor event that might have taken less than 5 seconds to occur (10% or less).
Now, imagine what would happen if, after something has been spilled on your shirt, you quickly tell your daughter to be careful next time, sparing the yelling, and, because you're not exactly grumpy then, asks your wife for a new shirt, politely. Done quickly, you might even get to work on time. Good day for the family, no?
This practice of rewriting what people forwarded me can be considered a form of plagiarizing.
Anyway
I originally wanted to write about anger, something that we can very well do without (as a matter of fact, the title of the post is with regards to anger, that is; go away, anger!). But now, somehow, I've lost the desire to write about anger. So here's what you should do; understand what I've written so far and relate it to how we all can very well do without anger, any way you see fit.
And we can all have a merry plagiarizing day
* :- this is, of course, conceptually, just an example.
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