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This site is a little project that lets me make fun of some things and sense of others. I use it to think a little more relationally without resorting to doing actual math.Subscribe
This site is a little project that lets me make fun of some things and sense of others. I use it to think a little more relationally without resorting to doing actual math.
Jessica. Thanks for your continued good work. I’m a movie-story guru, who is always trying to get story writers to move from words to metaphors. That is, make visible our invisible motivations. Your efforts with INDEX demonstrate that effort. This one is indeed confusing, but needs to be pained on the front white board of every classroom in the country. My wife will begin this morning with her middle school classes. But we “unconfused” the drawing. You’ve over complicated it. (We think.) Get rid of the small circles around A and B. The overlapping area that you label “B” instead, just hashed (shaded) and the caption is “Joy and Success” or some such. A wish alone is just frustration or anger (entitlement mentality). Work alone is just work (drudgery). But the two together is how to achieve our dreams. Blessings on your mind.
I mean “painted” not “pained.” But “pained” isn’t a bad concept.
My interpretation of this: If you work and work and work, your wishes may or may not come true. But if you don’t work, they definitely won’t.
I was puzzling over it and that conclusion was floating around … it sounds like a good one. I’ll take it :)
It is.
So be careful what you wish for?
Or, Be careful what you work for.
Or don’t work, so that there is no danger of your misanthropic wishes coming true!
(I know this makes no sense, but misanthropic is an awesome word.)
Buy the ticket, take the ride, do the work.
I decided to interpret this as a commentary on the plight of the modern worker drone. Thus, I immediately thought of Homer.
“Lisa, if you don’t like your job, you don’t strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed.” – Homer Simpson
If you can’t get any A (which clearly is what you really want,) you might as well only give those bastards half a B!
I am still struggling with having 2B’s here. My mind wants B to be one or the other. I assume you are pointing to both. If I am reading correctly, I could make a case a for B label being outside the chart pointing to the inner circle and the overlapped area. In parallel, the A could point to the inner circle on the left circle.
Hmmm… I read it as “You can’t always get what you waa-aaant…”
But if you try, you might just get what you ne-ee-eed.
If you work, you might get B. If you work and wish, you will get B. Don’t worry about A, you probably won’t get it anyhow.
This is also how I read it…sort of.
Result B is a subset of “work.” Result A is a subset of “wish.” Work without wishing might get you B. Wishing without working might get you A. Wishing and working will definitely get you B. i.e., you are more likely to get results if you both wish and work, though you can bumblingly work your way into them as well.
Why there are two results, and which one is preferable, I have no idea.
Here is how I read it…
We wish for things. Some of those things we actually work towards, so we get them. The things that we only wish and dream for will never materialize.
I read it this way: If you work, you will get result B. You wished for parts of B, other parts you did not wish for.
So, I see it a little different.
I know by personal experience, that there are results that you can work for and these results can be accomplished by working for them and also wishing for them or by simply working to accomplish them. But then there are a small fraction of results that can only be accomplished by solely wishing for them; for some reason a few of the possible results just won’t fit into that overlap in the middle of this diagram.
Yes, I agree with Clint, there are somethings which i wish for that come to me with no work. But then the work comes afterwoods.
This is a great example of why I love you. Look at how engaged your audience is with this one!
This isn’t that hard, people. Result A is the product of only wishing. Result B is the product of only working, as well as the product of both working and wishing. What does this mean? It means that working will produce Result B, regardless of whether or not there is any wishing, meaning that wishing has no impact on the result. Result A, in that sense, comes in the absence of work, whereas Result B is the product of it. What you should take away from this comic is the fact that if you want to change the result, you need to work.
This is what I was gathering too, with one minor edit.
Since B only happens sometimes when you work, and A only happens sometimes if you wish, but B happens always if you do both, I’d put the moral of the story like this: You’ll only get a certain result (presumably, the one you want) by working for it, but wishing helps.