Well, then, instead of being perpetually angry at the posters on this board, you should be angry with yourself for wasting so much time on it and for the fact that you aren't creative or ambitious enough to design better uses for your time.
Pat Donnelly: Pitino preaching positivity as Gophers stare at 0-3 start
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Well, then, instead of being perpetually angry at the posters on this board, you should be angry with yourself for wasting so much time on it and for the fact that you aren't creative or ambitious enough to design better uses for your time.
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I take it you don't have any mirrors in your house?
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Goes without saying, but thanks for saying.
From Gail Rosenblum in her recent Strib column titled "7 steps to immediate happiness in 2015":
"Be nicer to people. Being right won’t make you as happy in the long run as being kind. I share this philosophy with a happy friend and loyal reader, Betsy Peak, who tackled this very concept in her 'Musings and Hopes for 2015' newsletter:
“'Being right takes up too much energy, causes anxiety, causes losses of friends sometimes (however, if they’re toxic people, you’re lucky),' Peak writes. 'And immediately taking out their smartphone to see who’s right is tacky!'"
http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/blogs/287246611.html
Well done! Thanks for sharing that. I certainly fall into that kind of behavior myself sometimes but I try to catch myself before I go on too long with it.
Whether I do or not, I'm not the one sneering that the entire board is crap, so obviously I don't feel that I'm knocking my head against the wall in quite the same way you do.
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I think most importantly, they aren't performing to third-party expectations. Its one thing when I look at the schedule through maroon and gold glasses and say "yep, I see 30 wins there" and then get disappointed when they don't do it. However, I believe we have lost three games we were favored to win (we were favored against St. John's, right?), and have not upset anyone who was favored over us. That's a problem. One of my strongly held sports convictions is that the mark of a team that is working their hardest and getting quality coaching is that you end up on the right side of upsets more often than the wrong side."
+1 Especially the first line.
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I think most importantly, they aren't performing to third-party expectations. Its one thing when I look at the schedule through maroon and gold glasses and say "yep, I see 30 wins there" and then get disappointed when they don't do it. However, I believe we have lost three games we were favored to win (we were favored against St. John's, right?), and have not upset anyone who was favored over us. That's a problem. One of my strongly held sports convictions is that the mark of a team that is working their hardest and getting quality coaching is that you end up on the right side of upsets more often than the wrong side."
+1 Especially the first line.
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