Applying The Law Of Silliness
In the previous post I provided a rationale and suggested a guideline for how much any person should indulge in silliness. On reflection I want to elevate that guideline from the status of a “suggestion” to that of a “law.” Like the Law of Thermodynamics, or the Law of Unintended Consequences, or the newest rage among laws, the Law of Attraction. I’m tempted to call it “Richards’ Law” in the hope that the name will catch on and forever tie me to this important principle (like Murphy), but I’ll be happy enough to let go of that presumption if the law becomes famous and does some good.
The Limits of Silliness
Everything has limits. Too much? Too little? Too big? Too small?
Last March I posted a bit of silliness, wrote that “silliness is under-rated,” and then suggested in a comment to a follow-up post that many of us who plow the field of self-development take ourselves far too seriously.
For those who might be silliness-challenged or who worry that their silliness-quotient is too high or too low (especially in the self-development field), here are descriptions of the limits.
When Procrastination Is Arguing With God
I was scrolling through some 250 comments posted in Liz Strauss’s recent “open mic” forum about procrastination. Many comments are about the roots of procrastination, and they cover all of what I have in the past told myself about the roots of my own procrastination: fear of failure, perfectionism, monotonous tasks, etc. All of those reasons once rang true for me but do no longer.
