Odd advise, I know, but consider this, why are you an ass hole in the first place? For me, I am an ass hole because I believe that I am infinitely more intelligent than about 90% of the population. Where do I get this assumption from? Mostly from my day to day interactions with "average," people. I play a lot of video games, games that require abstract thinking in order to be successful so I have seen the whole gambit of strategies and tactics used and I have noticed one thing: People don't look up or behind themselves, thus leaving the perfect opportunity to come up behind them and take them out, something I have done more than once in my career of gaming.
Maybe my example is a bit hard fetched for some, but I have also had real life examples where the same kind of thinking has come in handy when dealing with a difficult situation. There was the time I was driving my dad's car at night and I lost control of it while it was raining. I contribute me sitting here today to the fact that I spent so much time playing Gran Trismo before this accident occurred, because from it I learned how to stop the car safely. As I lost control of the car it began to slide to the right, and remembering my experience in the video game, I turned the wheel to the left and ran through a patch of grass in order to slow the car down. By the time I stopped I was at least a foot from hitting a stop sign. I think most people in this situation would have been fucked, mostly because at the time of the accident I was 19, fresh out of high school and no idea what I was doing, and yet somehow I handled the situation calmly and cooly and walked away unharmed.
How does that tie in with my advise of not being an ass hole? Well, I've learned to realize that people process and store information differently. Some maybe able to instantly access it the moment it's useful, while others just lose their shit and smash their face into a wall because fuck logic.
I am okay with that.
Yep, that kind of thinking used to frustrate me to hell, because the solution would be right in front of most people and they just were not able to see it. Not any more, because not everyone can do that, which is why those that can overcompensate for those that cannot. Those people are not completely without merit, they just have to be placed in situations they are better suited to handle. Me, I'm no genius either, but damn it I try. I learned to accept these people for who they are and I also try to hold their hands through difficult things until they see what I see. I bring them up to my level (totally not humble or completely full of myself here, nope).
That's it. The key to not being an ass hole is acceptance. Accept that people are stupid, accept that every one is an ass hole, and you're half-way towards making your life easier. Maybe (most definitely) I am wrong, anyway I want to hear from you guys, my non-existent readers. The robots that keep crawling my page. Let me know what you think and feel free to pick a part my lazy half-assed argument. Follow @benlaakkonen
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