There is cruelty in the world Eliza, you can see that, can't you? It surrounds us. It breathes on us. We spend our life trying to escape it.
This is hard. This is fun.
Just because some people can do something with little or no training, it doesn't mean that others can't do it (and sometimes do it even better) with training.
So what should we say when children complete a task—say, math problems—quickly and perfectly? Should we deny them the praise they have earned? Yes. When this happens, I say, “Whoops. I guess that was too easy. I apologize for wasting your time. Let’s do something you can really learn from!
Did I win? Did I lose? Those are the wrong questions. The correct question is: Did I make my best effort?” If so, he says, “You may be outscored but you will never lose.
What can I learn from this? What will I do next time I'm in this situation?
More and more research is suggesting that, far from being simply encoded in the genes, much of personality is a flexible and dynamic thing that changes over the life span and is shaped by experience.
I have always wanted some way that you could make a surface in a computer, like you pick up a piece of clay and make sculpture.
I, too, await The hour of thy great wind of love and hate. When shall the stars be blown about the sky, Like the sparks blown out of a smithy, and die?
My big goal in life is to prove people wrong.
Let us proceed under the assumption that the fairy folk do exist, and that I am not a gibbering moron.