Interesting Comment Du Jour

Read a post by justinar and it inspired me to google up some some other references to her and her work.  This blurb from an interview with Cheryl Morgan looked like it might be of more interested than just to me. 

Going beyond the Music Man Harold Hill "Think System" aspects of the original comment, the assertion by Persaud is a provocative one. It makes sense that if you see your actions as the basis for positive things in life that would make you feel good. The flip side of making bad things the result of unfortunate circumstances seems more of a mixed bag. Either that could turn into a passive victimhood mode or an active, this is just something I have to keep fighting against and justice will out - stick with the gameplan and good things will come.

Interview: Justina Robson, by Cheryl Morgan - Strangehorizons.com

"CMM: I also remember Delia Smith [a famous British TV chef] once saying that making pastry is entirely mental. If you believe it will come out OK then it will, but if you are worried about it then it will be a disaster.

JR: I've just been reading a book by Raj Persaud who is a psychologist working in the U.K. It is called Staying Sane, and it is about preventative maintenance of your mental health, as opposed to doing things for people whose mental health has already seriously deteriorated.

He says that although it is irrational to think that everything good that happens to you is a result of your good efforts, and everything bad that happens is a result of unfortunate circumstances, people who take that attitude to life are provably having a better life, more success, more luck, and everything else."

Interesting Comment Du Jour

Read a post by justinar and it inspired me to google up some some other references to her and her work.  This blurb from an interview with Cheryl Morgan looked like it might be of more interested than just to me. 

Going beyond the Music Man Harold Hill "Think System" aspects of the original comment, the assertion by Persaud is a provocative one. It makes sense that if you see your actions as the basis for positive things in life that would make you feel good. The flip side of making bad things the result of unfortunate circumstances seems more of a mixed bag. Either that could turn into a passive victimhood mode or an active, this is just something I have to keep fighting against and justice will out - stick with the gameplan and good things will come.

Interview: Justina Robson, by Cheryl Morgan - Strangehorizons.com

"CMM: I also remember Delia Smith [a famous British TV chef] once saying that making pastry is entirely mental. If you believe it will come out OK then it will, but if you are worried about it then it will be a disaster.

JR: I've just been reading a book by Raj Persaud who is a psychologist working in the U.K. It is called Staying Sane, and it is about preventative maintenance of your mental health, as opposed to doing things for people whose mental health has already seriously deteriorated.

He says that although it is irrational to think that everything good that happens to you is a result of your good efforts, and everything bad that happens is a result of unfortunate circumstances, people who take that attitude to life are provably having a better life, more success, more luck, and everything else."