A friend of mine in college once offered what seemed to be, at the time, a colorful and exaggerated piece of advice. I believe I was stressed out about some class or an upcoming audition at the music school that we had to subject ourselves to every semester. He and I worked at a computer lab together and spent most of our time trying to hack into various servers on campus and I taught him various skills like how to decode porn on the old school version of the internet. I didn't show him how to do it with porn specifically.. I remember finding an encoded (uuencoded, to be specific) photo of the Gerber baby and walked him through the steps of making that into an actual photo on the computer. He was a bright guy and was able to apply his new-found skills in other manners. I didn't tell his girlfriend.
Anyway.. he told me that when he gets stressed out, he just thinks "oh F&%^ it" silently and moves on.. just tossing that stress aside. I couldn't comprehend how one could do that and actually have it work.. but I have found over time that I have used that approach to problem solving once in a while. Amazingly.. it has worked wonderfully each and every time. This guy may have been on to something.
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