Power vs time

Gretchen Rubin wrote:

Studies show that dwelling on negative thoughts amplifies their power in your mind. In fact, some researchers suggest that a reason that more women suffer depression than men is that women are more likely to “overthink,” while men are better at distracting themselves from negative thoughts.

Which reminded me of these words of wisdom posted by Jen Lawrence:

The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. - Carlos Castaneda

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Be the change

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Would you like corn with that?

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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sodsnodds/3748703383/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2645/3748703383_b7de6ff904_o.jpg" width="400" height="287" alt="2009_07_22_would_you_like_corn_with_that" border="0" /></a><br /><p sytle="font-size: 0.8em;" >Doodle by <a href="http://leesvoice.blogspot.com">Lee</a>. The code for <a href="http://leesdoodles.blogspot.com/2009/07/would-you-like-corn-with-that.html">this doodle</a> and other doodles you can use on your blog can be found at <a href="http://leesdoodles.blogspot.com/">Doodles</a>.</p>

Meta @wilw

This doodle is a little self-indulgent. Months ago, while following the tweets of Wil Wheaton, I thought "Hey, these would make great doodle fodder!" While doing a bit of background research, I found out that Ken Denmead of GeekDad beat me to it. Rather than let that stop me, I just included the information in the doodle. (Which makes it less of a punch line and more of an inside joke. A good geek would have a link here to the xkcd comic where Randall Munroe comments that there's already a picture on the internet of anything you can think of. But I can't seem to put my finger on it.)

Apologies to Wil Wheaton for hijacking his tweet and to Ken Denmead for embedding his comic!

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People pleaser

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