Awesome Advice of the Day: Thoughts on Change and Complaint

This is a great little essay (some salty language included) by the same fellow who gave us the best blog post ever on epistemology.

Short version of today's post about circumstances you don't like:

This leads me to the main point of this philosophy: if you choose to do nothing, you have no right to [complain].

. . . The thing to take away from all of this is that, no one is going to fix your problem for you. Life can be cruel, it’s up to you to punch it in the face. No matter how much you complain, no one is going to simply hand you a solution. They’re not even going to fight for you. The best you could hope for is that they’ll be able to relate and be motivated to go to bat with you. But even then, they’re not fixing your problem, they’re fixing their own (the two just happen to align).

. . . The only way to avoid failure altogether is to sit on your [butt]. But if you ask me, that’s the greatest failure of all.

BRAVO! *MM throws kisses and roses.* Also, the "Do Something Useful" tag is back!