Stop f#%^*ing ranting

Drinking at Elevate bar

During my typical Friday afternoon drinking session at Elevate Bar, I met up with a long time cycling friend Al Duncan, first we lied about how good things were (or I did anyway) and he then asked me about my blog and how difficult it was to come up with topics. In responding to his question we inadvertantly brainstormed two more topics .... this is one... Ranting... And another about success, and how successful people tend to succeed in different areas, when I questioned, why then do some really great people fail at their marriages? Which had us briefly question our inital hypothesis, until Al in his wisdom suggested that maybe it's linked to what successful people value, rather than what they are good at!... but that's for another blog on another day....

So back to the subject of ranting... We were discussing the benefits of blogging and it's ability to crystallize thoughts and that the process of writing had reduced my level of ranting, why? because every time I get a blog idea and I started to wrote about it, it turned out to be nothing more than a rant based on very little evidence, a reaction based on no real thought and bugger all truth. So my recommendation [I'm included] this week is that we all stop bloody ranting without THINKING. It's ok to rant about some things [Child poverty in NZ] but lets stop take time to think and really analysis critically before engaging the mouth. If you don't it's not the end of the world, some will diplomatically listen and even agree to a point, but what do you think when someone is ranting? feel free to share your thoughts ;-)

 

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