Trollheart

Didn't I already do this? No? Well, bout time I did.

There are a lot of "buzzwords" being used far too often on TV now that really bug the hell out of me. Some examples:

"I have passion/am so passionate about x"

"I want this so badly"

"I gave 110 (or any increment of 100) percent"

"Comfort zone"

"Nailed/killed that"

"Failure is not an option"

This last one really annoys me. It's a complete fallacy. Of course failure is an option, otherwise nobody would attempt anything because everything they did would work. It's the possibility of failure that drives us. Think the Wright Brothers, standing at Kill Devil Hill, thought "Ah this will definitely work. We've no problem here at all!"? Not a bit of it: fear of failure can stop you attempting things but it can also drive you to confront that failure, and to claim it's not an option is probably both the most stupid and arrogant thing anyone can say.

So, who wants to vent?

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