what makes you tick

A year ago i went looking for what could drive me in life did a lot of new things and learned a lot about myself but i still don't know what i want.
what drives you?
how did you find out?
was it hard, were you scared?

It took a long time and several career and life changes to find my what it was that would keep me going.
I'm a walking poster guy for the old "If I knew then what I know now..."

And what do you do Fred?

OP: Mine seems to be latelly coming up with (business/project) ideas, thinking them through to how they'd make money or people would see them or whatever, building/planning the website, then moving on to the next thing I've thought about, but without actually putting the website anywhere, as I don't feel as involved in it anymore, or it doesn't excite me or whatever. If that makes sense? So I'm not at the point yet where I understand how to make a career/life out of this, I'd love there to be!

Maybe the missing step is just need a bit of money or something, we'll see...

Everything, it seems. Currently constructing a business model to make soapstone tobacco/whatever else you want to smoke pipes for a living, and I'm eager to see how I can work out an efficient carving system to crank out at least 8 pipes in a day. Materials available to me are cheap and high quality, a rare combination these days - but when the stone you buy was selected and cut as a high-quality floor tile, I suppose it's par for the course.

I'm studying to be a theoretical physicist and a nuclear engineer, and I want doctorates in both - but I haven o idea how well that's going to work out, or how long it'll actually take due to my limited course load requirements (2 credits a semester). My grades are more than fine, but I get overwhelmed with more than that amount of classes.

I also enjoy drawing and writing music.

Other than that, I'm generally driven by the desire to learn everything I can about everything. The impossible dream.

Grossenschwamm wrote:Other than that, I'm generally driven by the desire to learn everything I can about everything. The impossible dream.

Even slugs?

Although saying that have you seen a snail eating lettuce or something? Strangely cute. I don't think it's be the same for slugs though because you can't pick them up like you can a snail.

373 wrote:
Even slugs?

Although saying that have you seen a snail eating lettuce or something? Strangely cute. I don't think it's be the same for slugs though because you can't pick them up like you can a snail.

Yes, even slugs. Slugs and snails have the same mouth parts and eat in the same way, with their spiky tongue - the radula. Also, leopard slugs do one of the most amazing things I've ever seen when they mate;

They start producing a great deal of mucus while on a tree branch, then start mating. As they mate, they slide off of the branch, and they begin wrapping around around one another, spinning in a glob of mucus - with a "rope" leading back up to where they fell. Sex while bungee jumping.

Grossenschwamm wrote:

373 wrote:
Even slugs?

Although saying that have you seen a snail eating lettuce or something? Strangely cute. I don't think it's be the same for slugs though because you can't pick them up like you can a snail.

Yes, even slugs. Slugs and snails have the same mouth parts and eat in the same way, with their spiky tongue - the radula. Also, leopard slugs do one of the most amazing things I've ever seen when they mate;

They start producing a great deal of mucus while on a tree branch, then start mating. As they mate, they slide off of the branch, and they begin wrapping around around one another, spinning in a glob of mucus - with a "rope" leading back up to where they fell. Sex while bungee jumping.

if you're interested in slugs, you might want to try this:

http://www.prx.org/pieces/65168-sea-slu ... chlorotica

a solar-powered sea slug with animal, plant and viral dna. they can photosynthesize their own energy.

also, if a slug can be said to be cute, then this one is. it looks like a leaf with little eye stalks.

I had read about that one a few years back. I thought it was amazing, because it seemed to be in-between plant and animal.

When we discover how this slug actually "works," we might be able to assume photosynthesis the way it does.

i always wanne figuere ppl out but that 's for a verry bad reason ofc so i can ###$ with ppl better and pull there strings but ofc looking for a more constructive ways to keep me occupied.
I was verry ditached but if i don't i get verry agressive dominant and manipulatieve. Having no epathy i wonder how aspies do it perhaps i can learn from them (you).

xabilis wrote:i always wanne figuere ppl out but that 's for a verry bad reason ofc so i can ###$ with ppl better and pull there strings but ofc looking for a more constructive ways to keep me occupied.
I was verry ditached but if i don't i get verry agressive dominant and manipulatieve. Having no epathy i wonder how aspies do it perhaps i can learn from them (you).

if you think you try to figure people out for a 'bad' reason, then you're not amoral--you've attached a value to good vs. bad behavior, and you can change what you do. what would be worrisome is if you thought aggression were fine.

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Grossenschwamm wrote:I had read about that one a few years back. I thought it was amazing, because it seemed to be in-between plant and animal."

yes, i just learned about them, and so i'm still a little in awe.

Grossenschwamm wrote:I had read about that one a few years back. I thought it was amazing, because it seemed to be in-between plant and animal.

When we discover how this slug actually "works," we might be able to assume photosynthesis the way it does.

wouldn't it be something if a little slug helped solve world hunger?

the researcher in that particular audio clip believes that it has something to do with infection by a retrovirus in the slug's ancestral past (although this accounts for only a tiny percentage of the algae dna) and he did find retrovirus dna in the slug's genome.

the downside is that when they're dying, they just disintegrate. it seems like a horrible way to go.