According to my Drill Instructor (circa 1970) on Parris Island, "Pain is weakness leaving the body" and his favorite "Pain is good... "

Was Chesty Puller your DI?

 

Was Chesty Puller your DI?

The man is legendary !!!

 

As an engineering viewpoint, emotions and instincts in human or animals are big complicated sources of instability,
for example ,when you are hungry you'd have a huge disposition for food but few minutes later when you got filled,you'd have aversion about foods and eating. other instincts and emotions like fear,anger,pain,sexuality,etc work the same way that is called beeing in instability border in engineering. or fluctuating between +∞ to -∞ somehow in other words.
so, I think it's almost a big challenge to be an engineer and deal with other humans and animals and fully realize them.
and for industrial societies , it gets much worse I guess...

 

As an engineering viewpoint, emotions and instincts in human or animals are big complicated sources of instability,
for example ,when you are hungry you'd have a huge disposition for food but few minutes later when you got filled,you'd have aversion about foods and eating. other instincts and emotions like fear,anger,pain,sexuality,etc work the same way that is called beeing in instability border in engineering. or fluctuating between +∞ to -∞ somehow in other words.
so, I think it's almost a big challenge to be an engineer and deal with other humans and animals and fully realize them.
and for industrial societies , it gets much worse I guess...

I see I'm not the only one who finds challenge in simply being a person. I find it easier to relate to machines than people.

 

I see I'm not the only one who finds challenge in simply being a person. I find it easier to relate to machines than people.

Machines are designed for a certain behaviour but humans...

 

Machines are designed for a certain behaviour but humans...

...are enigmas. I have been blindsided enough times to disabuse myself of any confidence in my ability to predict their behavior and intentions. I don't beat myself up about it anymore. I'm like a colorblind person I guess. There's nothing I can do about it, so I just go through life making decisions based on what I think is going on around me, and if I'm wrong then I'm wrong. I also ask others, like I imagine a colorblind person would, when the stakes are high. I trust almost everyone's intuition about other people, more than my own.

 

...are enigmas. I have been blindsided enough times to disabuse myself of any confidence in my ability to predict their behavior and intentions. I don't beat myself up about it anymore. I'm like a colorblind person I guess. There's nothing I can do about it, so I just go through life making decisions based on what I think is going on around me, and if I'm wrong then I'm wrong. I also ask others, like I imagine a colorblind person would, when the stakes are high. I trust almost everyone's intuition about other people, more than my own.

you sound a lot like me... your wife must love you, very very much...

 

you sound a lot like me... your wife must love you, very very much...

Let's just say I've provided plenty of opportunities to strengthen our relationship. In the "overcoming adversity" kind of way. 12 years now, I think if she was going to get fed up with me it would have happened already.

 

Let's just say I've provided plenty of opportunities to strengthen our relationship. In the "overcoming adversity" kind of way. 12 years now, I think if she was going to get fed up with me it would have happened already.

Maybe I've read that book starting by the last chapter. What a pity. Yes, life isn't fair.

 

Let's just say I've provided plenty of opportunities to strengthen our relationship. In the "overcoming adversity" kind of way. 12 years now, I think if she was going to get fed up with me it would have happened already.

It mostly happens in the first five years or, like Bill and Melinda Gates, as the last kid leaves for college.

 

As for me, forgetting to be an engineer ,dealing with arts like music,writing or cinema and travelling has worked as remedy so far.