let's get it percolating. remember those old math problems? about how to make the most efficient use of people's skills or talents? so that even if billy is best at everything, the world would be better off if he did the thing he was best at. so that even if joe wasn't very good at say, making peanuts, it would more efficient if joe made peanuts while billy made pears. because the maximum utility could be reached by using some formula cross referencing time and personal efficiency. there's a term for this, i know there is. but i can't remember anything pre-yesterday so all my education is lost on me.



so in lieu of finding something that you just have to do, the best thing to do in life is to find the thing that you do best and do it. wow. brilliant. award me a medal. i like to pawn off truisms obvious to all as my very own. next i'll say that love makes the world go round. but this "best" thing causes problems for some people. "what do i do best?" that's a common parlour question for our age group. right along with "what do i want to do?" but screw want, nobody gets what they want anyway. and we all know that wants can change willy nilly.



how to determine what you do best? everyone has skills and abilities and talents but how to determine which is the best? one might be inclined to say that the thing that you do "best" would enable you to make the most money. or allow you to have the most success. or allow you the most happiness. so that even if the best thing you do is take out the trash, the least you could do is make mad money sanitizing curbs and dumping stuff. i'm not talking about being "the best," just best. there are very few things that anyone can do to be "the best." but everyone has a personal best. like my best video game skill is the original street fighter two on super nintendo. me and guile will rock your world. so that's my best. and even if your best gets whooped by my best you have to keep plugging away with it anyway.



some people right now, are engaged in the process of finding out what they do best. they are working, they are learning, they are in school, they are going out and interning and applicating. some people already found their best. they are already actively engaged in their best. those kind of people impress me. golf clap all around. many of my best skills are totally superfluous so i'm engaged in trying to figure out what it is that i might be best at. actually, i'm more in my want stage because i feel like best will just come.



but that's kind of contradictory to what i was trying to bring up before. the utility of everyone doing their best. but my point has been lost to the wind. which has been happening quite alot, leaving me with not much to say. but oh well. the key thing to do in any situation is to find your role. your niche. niche is so cliqued by the way, isn't it? once you've settled into that niche everything else will happen correctly. at least that's what i've been told. and isn't it terrible when someone asks you "hey, what do i do best?" and you can't answer because you don't know? should your best be defined by you or by other people? i'm inclined to say you but in reality it may be better to rely on the outside world, they are after all, the people utlizing and recognizing your best.



"it is better to be silent and be a thought a fool than to speak and prove it." that's what i wrote to a high school friend in his yearbook. i think he got kinda angry. i think about this phrase and disregard it as foolishness. it's far better to spew shit out and hope for some gems among the crap. it's gotten me this far, why stop now?