Talking with Doug, who lacks a livejournal to the best of my knowledge, I described my emotional state as a trifecta of angst over a possibility I intend to pursue, ennui over a possibility which I tried for and I’m expecting to hear a negative back from, and frustration over the possibility I’ve made into a reality over the past 3 years. All related to work. <\/p>\n
Years ago a friend of mine told me he didn’t think he was as intelligent as me, and he was glad he wasn’t. I was surprised this particular friend thought himself less intelligent, and surprised that he would be grateful for it. He pointed out my frequent dissatisfaction and said another really intelligent friend had the same problem. <\/p>\n
I think the fundamental problem is that I have a very active imagination, and there are so many things I want to be doing, but there’s only so much time and only so much me to go around. A smarter person would be better at prioritizing. =)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Talking with Doug, who lacks a livejournal to the best of my knowledge, I described my emotional state as a trifecta of angst over a possibility I intend to pursue, ennui over a possibility which I tried for and I’m expecting to hear a negative back from, and frustration over the possibility I’ve made into … Continue reading “Angst, Ennui, and Frustration”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}