"Joe" wrote
"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving
his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental
attitude."

Duh, Tom Jefferson's not very bright. The right mental attitude is a negative unless
it's combined with experience. Common sense and understanding's also necessary. Just
because you have a positive attitude, it doesn't mean you'll succeed. All it means is your
attitude is positive. All it means is when you screw up royally you excuse your screw up
by saying it was a good learning experience when actually you've not learned a freaking
thing. It's just another way to excuse being too stupid to learn in the first place.
If you aren't down on yourself and kicking your own bottom for screwing up then your
probably just gonna repeat screwing up again and again....
It's like that klutz who had to be rescued from his wrecked pilot house motor sailboat
last week down there by South America. They interviewed him on the radio and I heard
it yesterday. He said "there's not much anybody can do when the angle of the boat and
a breaking wave combines to turn it over." Duh! So he learned exactly nothing. He's never
ever gonna think he should've been sailing with the proper storm sails. That way he coulda
controlled the angle of his boat. He should have been running before the storm. He could
have gotten away. He could have taken the wave on his stern instead of sideways. Instead
he's motoring with the sails down. Little weak diesel pretending to be a real motor boat.
Barely able to control the boat. So freaking stupid but it's what passes for sailors these
days...

Cheers,
Ellen