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- hello Ian Stanley
- Username: ijstanley
- In response to: "If you were in a movie right now, what music would be playing?" New Order - Blue Monday
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- What's the biggest challenge I'm currently facing?
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So many questions, so few answers. Or are there?
I find saying anything I believe to be interesting, a huge challenge.
I've had to come onto Plinky for inspiration and have cycled through no less than 50 questions before landing on one question that I instantly knew would be a question I could answer:
Q: What's the biggest challenge you're currently facing?
A: This. This is the biggest challenge I'm currently facing.
Nowadays it seems that everyone has so much to say and they (you?) use the internet as a place to dump the thoughts that are constantly flowing through their minds. Facebook, Twitter, Blogs of whatever form seem to be choc full of people with some extremely varied content. I read so much rubbish I don't care about but also lots of stuff that's actually pretty inspirational.
Why am I having issues answering some basic questions in Plinky? It's here to inspire you talk about yourself. Do I not have an opinion on anything? Sure I do, but maybe I feel my answer is too irrelevant to bother people to read it. I would conclude by this, that I don't find myself very interesting.
So how do I make my thoughts more interesting to myself? Maybe I should start by involving myself in the detail of everything a little more.
"Tea or Coffee?"
This was one of the questions asked before this one and my first thought was "What a stupid question. Coffee." A one word answer.
As I'm writing this, I'm thinking there is a way of pulling detail from the most insignificant things which can then be further described, analysed or debated. So:
I like coffee because it has a deeper taste and texture than tea, which often tastes just like hot water. It seems to me that a cup of coffee is also denser than a cup of tea as the cup resonates less when you stir it.
Now I'm finding it too easy to drivel on about the nuances of Tea and Coffee. So I stop. And prune.
Don't write everything in one go.
Trying to find a happy medium between entertaining a point of view and boring people with its details is to me, a little difficult. What is the best way of giving all the detail you want even though it may not be necessary? By allowing the reader to retrieve the detail on demand. Text links.
Being a web developer, my thoughts always return to the internet.
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