Soft Skills: On Fools

It's very easy to get worked up about fools. I've both been worked up, and had co-workers on the ledge of irrationality, with a fool as the cause. In my experience most folks classified as fools simply have different priorities and aren't fools - but  that's immaterial for this post.  When dealing with fools, remember to answer the following:



1) Who is the bigger fool - the fool, or the one being controlled by the fool?

2) What is a fool but a wise man's teacher?

Gratweets

I'm cross posting this to my health blog



Twitter it is a tool to let people share frequent simple thoughts, effectively thinking out loud.   Twitter apps exist on all types of computers and phones, letting you share brief thoughts easily.



Gratitude is a feeling acknowledging a benefit you receive.  The more I focus on being grateful the better I feel.   As with most feeling, the more I think about gratefulness, the more grateful I become. To encourage myself to be more grateful, I’d like to write down when I’m grateful.



Twitter and gratitude synergize - Twitter is an easy medium to share thoughts, and gratefulness is a thought I want to have frequently.  I define the term gratweet as a tweet expressing gratitude.



Starting a few weeks ago I've been gratweeting, and I'm already feeling a better. You can follow my gratweets on twitter @idvorkin