kinar wrote:
If you expect the worst, your life will never disappoint.
Hi Kinar, I respectfully disagree with this sweeping generalization. I think that "expecting the worst" is a good way to put yourself through needless anxiety, even depression, and to "weaken" the mental and psychic resources you need to handle the actual events as they unfold. I think that's about as non-constructive a pyschological strategy as "stiff upper lip," and "denial." So : fair for you to ask what I think is a "constructive" strategy : I would try, in the interim time between hearing about the change and learning the implications of the change for me, to use all my skills to analyze the situation, and, while allowing my feelings to "surface," and recognizing the anxiety, or fear, or whatever, I'd prepare for whatever by perhaps reviewing my copy of the contract with the company, thinking of creative strategies such as : how I might attempt to get hold of any unvested stock options, etc. And, personally, I'd take the weekend off, and get outdoors, and stay busy, and exercise, and read, see my friends, enjoy life and food, and try and make sure I walked into the unknown as fit as possible. best, Bill
"Many : not conversant with mathematical studies, imagine that because it [the Analytical Engine] is to give results in numerical notation, its processes must consequently be arithmetical, numerical, rather than algebraical and analytical. This is an error. The engine can arrange and combine numerical quantities as if they were letters or any other general symbols; and it fact it might bring out its results in algebraical notation, were provisions made accordingly." Ada, Countess Lovelace, 1844
