Even if someone tries to light a fire under your ass, take your time even if it's harder not to rush. When you try to do something on somebody else's rhythm that isn't your own, you'll never get to find yours.
by Solid Mantis January 23, 2021
The hard part is not rushing through something when it seems like failure is inevitable if you don't hurry up, even though you only get it halfway done when you do that. It's better to fail and not fear it, than to succeed because you fear failure. You never really learn or improve if you only succeed because you're afraid of failure or don't like to lose (nobody really does). Otherwise, you're the kind of person who has a go to bag of nearly limitless tricks to reach for, hoping that the other guy forgot one that you haven't used in a long time.
Failure isn't meant to be fun, not everything in life is.
by Solid Mantis January 23, 2021
What the media doesn't tell you when talking about all the horror stories on the coronavirus is that though over 3,000 people is a lot when you've lost a loved one, there's still over a billion people that lived on in China. Instead, all you hear about is how people should worry more than they are, that they should take more caution, but that they shouldn't panic, and that they should remain calm, which is all contradictory.
The misinformation about the coronavirus and deaths is not all coming from China, it's on the news in the united states.
by Solid Mantis April 01, 2020
Usually someone who starts a string of misinformation knows its bad information. Early settlers in North Carolina were Scots Irish, not Irish. Something seemingly minor and harmless can end up doing a lot of damage to the lives of other people though. The average black guy or girl going to work every day and living out their life wouldn't have time or a reason to know that Irish Catholics and Scots Irish are not the same people without having spent time around them, and thus would not know that Irish Catholics didn't own slaves. This allows for more ignorance of the other group, not less. Its the same ignorance as a white guy who doesn't know that not all Nigerians are the same religion (some Christian, some Muslim, some don't go to a church or a mosque at all, and so on), or that not all Muslims are terrorists. A lot of white guys go to work every day and live their lives out without having spent a lot of time around people from other groups, and don't know when they're being given a string of information, and its a good thing some do.
Lindsay wanted to continue sending out strings of misinformation to keep people from all groups on edge around each other.
by Solid Mantis December 21, 2019
The introvert was not just considered fun, but stimulating to be around by enough people that he/she was called the toast of many a party. It was never obvious that he/she was an introvert, so people who were not like him/her were considered shallow by the introvert and his/her closest relations.
by Solid Mantis June 05, 2019
Though it seems counter-intuitive, most introverts tend to go to many parties and social gatherings, more than most people even. The mental image some people have of introverts being alone most of the time comes from misinformation about personality that comes from introverts.
An introvert is not somebody by themself, since at times anybody and everybody spends at least some of their time by themself. An introvert is usually the one people think is fun to take to parties, and is often thought to be an extrovert by people who know them, which is usually the way an introvert wants the world to think of them, it's a defense that the introvert thinks will always work on other people.
by Solid Mantis May 05, 2020
A lot of misinformation from introverts (mis)leads people to think shyness is related to being an introvert. Actually, true introverts are often mouthy and are almost always the center of attention, which is what makes a lot of people mistake them for extroverts.
The introvert had eyes like a camera, always recording everything, this was why you might see him/her on TV or YouTube instead of by himself/herself reading a book or doing something quietly. An introvert is as likely to collect guns and knives or ride a motorcycle as he/she is likely to be in a book club, since a person's true nature doesnt determine what people see them doing.
by Solid Mantis September 02, 2020