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Is it possible that as a person achieves more and more, that same person can feel less and less adequate at the same time?

Sorry, don’t have the answer to this one. But sure is a good chance for using this long word!

This morning, while on the way to work, noticed a motorbike at the traffic lights.

I have often wondered why motorists like to weave their way to the front of the lines whenever the traffic lights turned red, so that they are the first to go off when the lights changed. Surely not everyone on a motorbike is impatient? Although I have never owned a motorbike before, I have been told that it’s more than just wanting a head start on every one else. In fact, it is safer for the motorists because motorbikes have higher acceleration than cars, and motorists have less protection around them in case they get squashed in by cars.

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I wonder if there is any correlation between ability to study (for exam) and age?

You would think that when you get older, and after having already survived whatever the existing education system can throw at you, you will get better at preparing for examination, wouldn’t you!? I mean, once you have some working experience and therefore have lived in the real world, surely you are better at time management, resource planning, and all that stuff that people have always said is critical for exam success, compared to a fresh and naive student!?

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Had a conversation with some friends about numbers the other night. It seems that for some people, the term ‘numbers’ is automatically linked with accounting, business, commerce, bottom-lines, and so on. I wonder if this is the ‘norm’? If it is, then I suppose I am one of the abnormal people.

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