Location Taken: Skihist Provincial Park, British Columbia
Time Taken: June 2010
One of the primary criteria for the “Best” category I post on Saturday nights is, quite simply, whether or not I can imagine the piece looking at home printed quite large, framed, and hung over a kitchen table.
I know, how prosaic of me. Hmmm… Not sure if prosaic is the right word. I’d say “capitalistic”, but the fact that I have yet to actually put these pieces up for sale runs counter to that.
And of course, my having said that makes it just a hair less likely to get around to doing that any time soon.
It’s one of those fun quirks of human psychology. Telling someone else about a goal you have triggers the same reward mechanisms as actually completing the goal. In other words, the more you talk about your plans, the more you feel instinctively like you’re making progress towards them, despite not doing one iota of actual work. Which, of course, means you’ve got less motivation to do the actual work, because it’s, well, work, and you get the same joy just from talking.
Isn’t that a fun factoid?
