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Firewalker

I wonder, what has happened to my fonts? I am in Rome; just could not post the above earlier.

NL, thanks; will do a quick search and replace. Interestingly I do agree with Yoda and always have done; any use of 'try' is subconcious which is exactly when people should watch it.

Back to paying attention to the meeting now.

Firewalker

Cheery_Daff

What an interesting experiment NorthernLas! I might try it too

(oops! :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:)

Guess I need to start right now then! :rotfl:

MrsMoo2U

great idea NL and I love the quote by Yoda. Hmm I will go off to my thesaurus to find another word for try - ok I KNOW that is cheating

FW, try to take 5 minutes to enjoy yourself as well as stressing. Sounds like you are rocking the audiences!

Marru

cherisong wrote: »

great idea NL and I love the quote by Yoda. Hmm I will go off to my thesaurus to find another word for try - ok I KNOW that is cheating

FW, try to take 5 minutes to enjoy yourself as well as stressing. Sounds like you are rocking the audiences!

:rotfl:..............

se999

I think it depends on your own personal idea of what try means. For our family it means a term we grabbed from contract law, there's a term there called 'best endeavours'. Which for us means that we look to make the best effort possible, in the end even if we don't get to the original expected outcome, you haven't failed because you've optimised the situation and could haven't done more.

Admittedly this applies more to the 'biggies' in life. Everyone uses 'try' when they don't have all the information, e.g. standard phrases like "I'll look at my diary and try to fit you in next week". So it has different meanings in different contexts.

Maybe appreciating the different meanings in the context would work just as well as just avoiding using a specific word

Marru

Or you could say that I'll see if I can fit you in which would be more positive.

Have you ever tried to lift a chair up? And don't just go and lift it as that would not be trying to lif that would be lifting. I think that is how our subconsious mind would interpret (sp?) the word.

se999

Marru wrote: »

Have you ever tried to lift a chair up? And don't just go and lift it as that would not be trying to lif that would be lifting. I think that is how our subconsious mind would interpret (sp?) the word.

I quite often try to lift things including chairs, and have to get help if they're too heavy, the try in that context is not saying I won't lift it, it's an attempt to see if it's a physical possibility

Admittedly there's been a few cases where things have looked lighter than they were and I've lifted them, and wished I'd been more careful and tried it first

Maybe we have different subconsciouses

Firewalker

Cheri, I have been trying...:rotfl:

Amazing! Being a researcher I not only searched the last 5 pages for 'try' but decided to compare it with the first 5 pages of my diary. Doing this I was feeling smug thinking that it will show I am getting better.

Blast; it is getting worse! First five pages 'try' is used once; last five pages 'try' is used six times. Thank you NorthernLas for pointing this out...

And of course the good news is that I am fully connected from Rome. The hotel is not very nice (let say it has character) but internet is free and I managed to change my setting so that I connected. Don't ask what I did though, because I cannot say.

Now will try to run around for a bit and then rest. Meeting is boring...mostly.

Firewalker

Firewalker

Boring, boring meeting! Don’t think that I am complaining though. First, my bit today was fine and I might be a bit biased but it was easily the most interesting part of the meeting. All the rest was about indicators and all this stuff I consider to be ‘minor detail’ (on par with traffic signs and the like); but my bit is about studying the motivations for and the impact of research funding. Second, because most of the meeting was so boring I managed to almost finish reading a book about metabolic typing. Interesting and I wonder whether the ones among us who are struggling with weight, energy and generally wellbeing issues have seen it. It turns out that I am a Carb Type which means that I should eat small meals and I can deal with carbs. Should not eat fat and heavy proteins; incidentally I don’t like eating anything fatty.

Then the meeting finished at about 4.30 p.m. so we (two guys from my group and a German colleague) went for a three hour walk around Rome. There is only one word for that – splendid! Another one is glorious. There was also the most delicious ice-cream I have tasted for a long time and really good pizza and beer for dinner. The conversation was flowing and this trip is almost over. What else can one want? Much I am thinking but remembering that modesty and gratitude are virtues after all.

Tomorrow I have an early start – the taxi to the airport is coming at 7.45; and if all goes well I will be hugging Little Boy and OH in the early afternoon.

Today, there is a thought of the day and it is one I really seriously love. And I want them both, science and wisdom.

“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.” - Immanuel Kant


Firewalker

savingwannabe

Rome. Glorious!!!!

Have a safe journey.