personal hinge points
Feb. 27th, 2012 11:17 amElseweb a friend asked about personal hinge points, of the "if you could go back and do one thing differently, what would it be?" variety.
Most of the poor decisions I've made were the best decision I could have made at the time. As noted elsewhere, I lacked the tools to make better ones. To have chosen differently or better I would have had to be a different person. This rules out such obvious choices as "don't nearly fail out of college" or "don't give up on writing for the better part of a decade."
Having said that, there are one or two places things could have gone differently. ( For example... )
Most of the poor decisions I've made were the best decision I could have made at the time. As noted elsewhere, I lacked the tools to make better ones. To have chosen differently or better I would have had to be a different person. This rules out such obvious choices as "don't nearly fail out of college" or "don't give up on writing for the better part of a decade."
Having said that, there are one or two places things could have gone differently. ( For example... )