Sometimes failure is inevitable. Sometimes we can’t help but fall flat on our faces, no matter how hard we try. This is life’s way of humbling us. Think about what we would be like if we never failed. We would all be arrogant, entitled freaks, walking around, thinking that we’ve done nothing wrong. We wouldn’t …
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We don’t always get to decide when we fail. We just have to live through it. Say, for instance, it’s your first day at a new job. You worked unbelievably hard to get here, and you feel like you’re punching above your weight. You buy a new blazer just for the occasion. You couldn’t sleep …
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The world is full of tiny absurdities. Sometimes you’ll just see something that doesn’t make any sense. You can’t square it with your version of reality. Maybe it’s a type of store that you can’t understand why anyone would have a need for. Maybe it’s a type of person that you’ve never met before and …
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To err is to be human. What are we, clankers? That’s a word I recently learned that is apparently used to denigrate robots. But robots, by design, don’t make mistakes. They can only be programmed wrong. Flaws? Things going south? That’s all us, baby. In this era of encroaching robot rule, it’s important to hold …
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Sometimes life calls for a «screw it» moment. You know this because you’ve had them. You’ve lived through moments when you just had to throw caution to the wind and let fate, or perhaps impulse, take the wheel. Maybe you were super nervous to ask someone out on a date, but instead of wallflowering in …
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Sometimes things happen not for a reason. Sometimes things just don’t make any sense. This is crucial to accept if you’re going to have a happy life. If you’re searching for meaning in every corner all the time, you’re going to drive yourself crazy. Because one day you’re going to see a tub of half-eaten …
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Sometimes designs fail us. They take a turn that we don’t expect, and then we’re left baffled. It’s one of the things that life asks of us. We often have to take absurdity in stride as humans. When you really think about it, nothing makes that much sense. The fact that we drink cow milk …
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Sometimes it’s so funny when things go wrong. Not when it’s at our expense. Like that time in ninth grade when we were carrying a tray of chili cheese fries, trying to find a place to sit, knowing that you couldn’t sit with the cool kids, but hoping that you wouldn’t have to sit with …
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I don’t know anyone who has led a life without making any mistakes. I’d like to bet that those people don’t actually exist. Sure, some people are exceptional, like Mother Theresa or the Dalai Lama. They’ve dedicated their lives to helping others and they’ve done a great job of it. But I would bet my …
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Why do misspellings make us laugh so much? From the dawn of time we’ve been fascinated by the failures of others maybe it makes us feel better about ourselves. Maybe it reminds us that everything we’ve built is absurd. Maybe it’s just funny when somebody says Borpo instead of Oprah. We may never know the …
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