{"id":22,"date":"2008-08-21T21:09:34","date_gmt":"2008-08-21T19:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shusen.net\/?p=22"},"modified":"2008-08-21T21:09:34","modified_gmt":"2008-08-21T19:09:34","slug":"thinking-kills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shusen.net\/?p=22","title":{"rendered":"Thinking kills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the day, while driving my car, or while working, I have the most profound insights in humanity or my own life. But when I sit down to write about them, I&#8217;ve lost them all. Must be the story of my life, but how can I reach greatness when I&#8217;ve forgotten all I need to know before I can use it?<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nLast weekend was Lowlands, both the best and worst Lowlands I&#8217;ve ever had. Best because it started great, with very good weather, good friends, lots of alcohol. Worst because I&#8217;ve been behaving stupidly towards a specific female. Shouldn&#8217;t have done that, or better said, shouldn&#8217;t have done it that way. Should have just gone with the flow and shouldn&#8217;t have started thinking.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that thinking is usually what gets me into trouble. Everything is going as it should, and then I start thinking. When I start thinking doubts start to surface, eating away at my self confidence. Then I start doubting more, and at a certain point my own equilibrium goes down the drain and I do stupid things.<\/p>\n<p>Smart things I&#8217;ve done lately, just to build a little bit of confidence again. Stopped my own company, found a real job and started working yesterday. And, well, that&#8217;s about it I guess. Now I have to build up confidence in my work, build up a good report with my bosses (small company, two partnes as owners and my as the only employee), and start up that photo education thingy.<\/p>\n<p>Things have been set in motion, now I have to ride the rollercoaster till the end, be it bitter or sweet. Of course I could jump off halfway again, but doing that withouth having a fallback option would be more or less suicidial, and I don&#8217;t feel like killing all my chances at a future of my own choosing.<\/p>\n<p>I will become a damned good photographer and earn my money that way!<\/p>\n<p>Ah, it&#8217;s nice to have a goal that I might or might not reach \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the day, while driving my car, or while working, I have the most profound insights in humanity or my own life. But when I sit down to write about them, I&#8217;ve lost them all. Must be the story of my life, but how can I reach greatness when I&#8217;ve forgotten all I need to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shusen.net\/?p=22\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thinking kills&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2NcFr-m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shusen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shusen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shusen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shusen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shusen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shusen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23,"href":"https:\/\/shusen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shusen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shusen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shusen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}