T-Flexercise
T-Flexercise t1_ir6ltik wrote
Reply to Does Vienna wait for us, or is life a race against ourselves? [Discussion] by TreatThompson
I think a lot of it is that we as a society only portray beautiful young people as being happy and successful. It doesn't matter if you travel the world if in all the pictures you're old and fat. Our stories of someone going on an adventure to achieve their dreams all portray young people. Then after that is just happily ever after. We don't often see films about some 43 year old fulfilling a lifelong dream to climb a huge mountain, even though that happens all the time. Your dreams will be just as great if you accomplish them when you have wrinkles. And you will be just as happy getting married now as you will be 3 years from now when you've lost 50 lbs.
Challenge your internalized notions of what a happy successful person looks like. Most of them aren't 25.
T-Flexercise t1_j64q5x9 wrote
Reply to LPT: If somebody keeps asking you questions they can easily look up on their phone, always respond with, "What did Google say?" Eventually, they'll figure it out. by [deleted]
A way better response is to give them the answer, and what you googled to get the answer.
So, like, when an intern tells me "This ticket says it doesn't work with nmcli and I don't know what that is. What should I do?" I go "Huh.... ok, so I googled nmcli and it turns out it's a command-line network manager tool. Have you tried running it from the command line?"
That way, you convey the information that they should google that kind of thing in the future, but don't imply that they're stupid for not knowing it automatically, and you still give them the opportunity to talk through it with you.