The world according to Chris

of course it s nice to share a lot of things in a partnership but I don t know if “private sessions” belong to the stuff that I d like to share … anyway, it s too far away from April Fools’ Day for this to be a joke, so we’ll just tell it to you straight: The TwoDaLoo is called a “supertoilet,” created to “save rocky marriages and the planet.” Not fancy enough for you? Get it with a 7-inch LCD TV and an iPod docking station, so you won’t have to look at each other while you pinch a loaf …

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webpage http://iparklikeanidiot.com/ has a nice collection of photos that show how you are NOT supposed to park a car … in addition they sell “I park like an idiot”-bumper stickers which you are NOT supposed to stick to cars in question … of course ;)

A new study in Science (link) shows that learning from errors requires dopaminergic signaling and has a genetically determined basis. This is good to know for some people… and might suck for others :P … anyway it reminds me of an article about the Dunning-Kruger-Symptom I posted earlier. In this regard, the only question remaining is: what was earlier hen or egg? ;)

The New York Times takes a look at the culture of perfectionism, suggesting that the tenets of the perfectionist—when applied to things like personal relationships or when taken too far at the workplace—can take a serious toll on your happiness. As part of a study at U.C. Davis, employee assistance counselor Alice Provost forced perfectionists to:

Leave work on time. Don’t arrive early. Take all the breaks allowed. Leave the desk a mess. Allow yourself a set number of tries to finish a job; then turn in what you have.

The British have a saying that encourages people to show their skills while mocking the universal fear of failure: Do your worst.

If you can’t tolerate your worst, at least once in a while, how true to yourself can you be?

… very true I think!

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