Wednesday, February 07, 2007

Combatting nerdiness and anti-social behaviour

In one of my deep personal introspections recently I came to the conclusion that I really am a nerd. I am also moderately anti-social. I am friendly, yet anti-social. And as always when I come to these conclusions, its like an "ah ha!" experience and a light bulb turns on in my head. Its not that I didnt already know these things, rather I didnt know how to change them or I didn't understand the contributing factors to my nerdiness/anti-social behaviour. This spells good things for me as now I can concentrate on not being so nerdy/anti-social by doing differently than Ive done before. For one I have to accept that I can't know everything, hence I shouldnt attempt to devour every book on every interesting subject. It seems the pile will never be finished, so I might as well learn what I can and just be happy to know what I know. I need to develop a plan as to what I want to learn so that I can filter out what is not helping me to acheive my learning goal. Further more, what is that learning goal anyway! As for being anti-social, I just need to go out more, preferrably to events/places that are low in cost. I still think its important to be frugal and its relatively easy to be social and still be frugal. Heck I do it all the time, I just need to do it more often and in a more effective way.

I also think I need to go out with those persons I really want to build strong friendships with as the default rule and not worry about those who Im not so interested in doing such with. Up till now Ive just been going out at random with whomever, once the opportunity arises. I need to be a bit more selective and really seek out good friends.

I also need to go back to school, even if its just to take a course. I think that is very important in satisfying my craving for knowledge. As always let's see how long I keep this resolve up for.

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