Years ago I read a book by Robert Fulghum "Everything I need to know I learned in kindergarten", and I applied some of it to myself.....How about you?

These are the things I learned: (by Robert Fulghum)

Share everything.

Play fair.

Don't hit people.

Put things back where you found them.

Clean up your own mess.

Don't take things that aren't yours.

Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.

Wash your hands before you eat.

Flush.

Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.

Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.

Take a nap every afternoon.

When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands, and stick together.

Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the styrofoam cup:
The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.

Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup - they all die. So do we.

And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned - the biggest word of all - LOOK.

Sounds good, Randy,

To add something: I keep asking myself if I can do something about problems and obstacles along my route through life. If I can, I do this something, and if not, I simply push it aside and move on.

And then of course, I have to mention Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

/Claes

And then of course, I have to mention Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
That is brilliant Claes, I have never seen it before. I shall try to add it to my personal philosophy - so much easier to pity an idiot, than seethe with rage at an imagined slight.

Umm interesting thoughts. I will think of those nice warm and fuzzy rules when things start to get a bit much as they do in modern life!

One thing that's a bit contradictory: If he learned everything he needed in kindergarten, why then, does one of his points say learn some more? Maybe it can be explained a nicety rather than a necessity.


And then of course, I have to mention Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

/Claes

That is a great way to look at things, but stupidity does not mean we have to 'pity the fool'!!! Sometimes we should educate, but quite often we all just feel like directing anger at such stupidity. However, what about ignorance?

I would change it:

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity or ignorance. Educate!

Sometimes we should educate, but quite often we all just feel like directing anger at such stupidity. However, what about ignorance?

I would change it:

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity or ignorance. Educate!Fair enough. I think I wold just qualify that to mean not to become too emotionally invested in what could be a trifling thing. But I would like to just declare to be patient, not feel victimized by life's disappointments. Bide your time to educate; the right moment might not be the immediate one.

Randy:

Robert Fulghum had never been to one of your Lead Auditor courses, obviously......:lmao:

Last year I saw and heart him speak at a conference in Portland, OR. He was great.

No powerpoint, no handouts, no slide and so on.

He used the big wall behind him to draw imaginary pictures with a laser pointer and explaining his philosophy while drawing pictures with the pointer.

The world would be a better place, if more people adopted his philosophy.

Not sure if these are off-topic but a few Momisms/Dadisms:

1. Many hands make light work.
2. It's not what you say, it's the way that you say it.
3. Be on time - respect other's time.
4. The easiest way isn't always the best way.
5. Sometimes all it takes is some elbow grease.

Do unto others as they would have done unto them.

Treat others as you want to be treated.
If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all.

Sky Masterson, in Damon Runyon's Guys and Dolls, on some advice his father had given him:
One of these days in your travels, a guy is going to show you a brand-new deck of cards on which the seal is not yet broken. Then this guy is going to offer to bet you that he can make the jack of spades jump out of this brand-new deck of cards and squirt cider in your ear. But, son, do not accept this bet, because as sure as you stand there, you're going to wind up with an ear full of cider.

Smile, even if you do not feel like smiling.

Slow down, you will probably get there in the same amount of time.

Ask a question and listen to the response, don't be quick to respond

Count your blessings!!!

The great philosopher Yoda:
http://www.isi.edu/isd/yoda/Yoda.JPG
No, try not, Do, Or do not. There is no try.

In the year 1166 B.C., a malcontented hunchbrain by the name of Greyface, got it into his head that the universe was as humorless as he, and he began to teach that play was sinful because it contradicted the ways of Serious Order. "Look at all the order around you," he said. And from that, he deluded honest men to believe that reality was a straightjacket affair and not the happy romance as men had known it.

It is not presently understood why men were so gullible at that particular time, for absolutely no one thought to observe all the disorder around them and conclude just the opposite. But anyway, Greyface and his followers took the game of playing at life more seriously than they took life itself and were known even to destroy other living beings whose ways of life differed from their own.

The unfortunate result of this is that mankind has since been suffering from a psychological and spiritual imbalance. Imbalance causes frustration, and frustration causes fear. And fear makes for a bad trip. Man has been on a bad trip for a long time now.

It is called THE CURSE OF GREYFACE.

From the Principia Discordia

Some sage advice from the late great B. Kliban: Never eat anything bigger than your head (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-images/0911104674/ref=cm_ciu_pdp_images_0?ie=UTF8&index=0#gallery).

Some sage advice from the late great B. Kliban: Never eat anything bigger than your head (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-images/0911104674/ref=cm_ciu_pdp_images_0?ie=UTF8&index=0#gallery).


I had that book back in the day.
Loaned to a friend and never got it back.

I had that book back in the day.
Loaned to a friend and never got it back.
He probably ate it!:D

He probably ate it!:D


well - that's ok because the book wasn't bigger than his head.

I've always been a big proponent of the "KISS" principle. I often find myself, at times, repeating the words in my mind and even in self-monologue.

Conincidentally, this is one of my favorite quotes that I strive to live by:

"Very little is needed to make a happy life. It is all within yourself, in your way of thinking."

- Marcus Aurelius