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There's somthing to be said for "Failure".
Ya have to be able to hold a handfull of thoughts to appreciate this.
It's wierd that all this happened the same week.
#1,
Watching the P B R finals last sunday, a quote.
"I ain't afraid of die'n it's failing I'm afraid of".
(I watch it for the Bull Fighters, more than the riders).
#2
A youngster at work complaining, "they said I should work more O.T.
to meet the schedual".
#3
The first time I tried to run the "Big Bars", (horizontal mills).
After insults, intimidation and yelling, the comand for the day.
"Tomorow I want to see a brand new ruFFer, (roughing end-mill),
snapped off laying in the trough, and Ya back off about two clicks,
and that's where Ya machine from know on, DO I MAKE MYSELF CLEAR ? !"
#4
Skunky, a huge young highly intelligent cat and his hapless daring brother shadow.
Skunky might be the most intelligent cat I ever saw, but he is able to distinguish
any limitations, and stay just short of them.
Shadow, is even faster than his dear departed Grandpa (Bruce Lee), And
even stronger, hard to imagine. Shadow has fallen, has crashed, has had
the $hit beat out of him. Skunky is always a step away from the edge of the envelope.
Shadow, has learned to open doors, and bounce off of two 90 degree walls
and land behind his opponant.
I entered the work-force in 1974, have seen hundreds of charactors,
Some are my mentors & champions, but another group fascinates me.
I mistakenly thought it was one at first, but eventually, reallized that
there were two "types" here. Loosers are one, I have no use for loosers.
They have no excuse, they are pathetic and self-fatal.
I learned to notice the difference "Failures", These I find fascinating.
They can offen do some of the most breathtaking & awe-inspiring things.
( That is with-in the trades ). But come and go, shattered famillies sometimes,
No driver's liscence sometimes, Used to own xyz buisness, etc. etc.
Some I have worked with in various "states" of success or decline.
If you haven't failed, really failed, how do you really know of you aren't an underacheiver,
even if you are a head & neck infront of every-one else.
I often push the tooling & machinery to the point that it begins to show signs of faultering,
and then back-off two clicks. I currantly know of no equal around here,
with a crash-rate less than mine.
BUT, I hated that man with every-thing in my be-ing, the first time I was told to do that.
How incredibly Ironic, I was recently hired to run a Mill worth
over 3 million sitting on an installation worth another million.
I've been flat-out fired twice in my adult life.
It used to bother me being a failure, now I'm dead-certain I like it better than being
a Winner who never got close enough to the edge to get he life scared out of i'm.
vg
It's wierd that all this happened the same week.
#1,
Watching the P B R finals last sunday, a quote.
"I ain't afraid of die'n it's failing I'm afraid of".
(I watch it for the Bull Fighters, more than the riders).
#2
A youngster at work complaining, "they said I should work more O.T.
to meet the schedual".
#3
The first time I tried to run the "Big Bars", (horizontal mills).
After insults, intimidation and yelling, the comand for the day.
"Tomorow I want to see a brand new ruFFer, (roughing end-mill),
snapped off laying in the trough, and Ya back off about two clicks,
and that's where Ya machine from know on, DO I MAKE MYSELF CLEAR ? !"
#4
Skunky, a huge young highly intelligent cat and his hapless daring brother shadow.
Skunky might be the most intelligent cat I ever saw, but he is able to distinguish
any limitations, and stay just short of them.
Shadow, is even faster than his dear departed Grandpa (Bruce Lee), And
even stronger, hard to imagine. Shadow has fallen, has crashed, has had
the $hit beat out of him. Skunky is always a step away from the edge of the envelope.
Shadow, has learned to open doors, and bounce off of two 90 degree walls
and land behind his opponant.
I entered the work-force in 1974, have seen hundreds of charactors,
Some are my mentors & champions, but another group fascinates me.
I mistakenly thought it was one at first, but eventually, reallized that
there were two "types" here. Loosers are one, I have no use for loosers.
They have no excuse, they are pathetic and self-fatal.
I learned to notice the difference "Failures", These I find fascinating.
They can offen do some of the most breathtaking & awe-inspiring things.
( That is with-in the trades ). But come and go, shattered famillies sometimes,
No driver's liscence sometimes, Used to own xyz buisness, etc. etc.
Some I have worked with in various "states" of success or decline.
If you haven't failed, really failed, how do you really know of you aren't an underacheiver,
even if you are a head & neck infront of every-one else.
I often push the tooling & machinery to the point that it begins to show signs of faultering,
and then back-off two clicks. I currantly know of no equal around here,
with a crash-rate less than mine.
BUT, I hated that man with every-thing in my be-ing, the first time I was told to do that.
How incredibly Ironic, I was recently hired to run a Mill worth
over 3 million sitting on an installation worth another million.
I've been flat-out fired twice in my adult life.
It used to bother me being a failure, now I'm dead-certain I like it better than being
a Winner who never got close enough to the edge to get he life scared out of i'm.
vg
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