'How to become a hacker?  :)  Thank you for the insights on the benefits of learning those languages.  I'm really still in the beginning stages of immersing myself in learning again.  I just finished...|||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0Q7e9Q6DlI|||I started studying again for the first time in over a decade.  I decided I wanted to acquire a skillset in computer programming to give myself some real opportunities in the workforce.  In the...|||After you moved your rook to a5, the position is not easy to win.  I was saying if you had captured the knight on c3 with your queen (or bishop) on move 17, you would have been winning by a lot. ...|||17...Qxc3 was the best move here.  It would have forced a queen swap, since the black queen forks the bishop on a3 and the white queen on d3.  After the queens are gone, you are up a full piece, even...|||Embracing change is essential to growing and moving forward in life.  If you don't get what you want, you suffer;   if you get what you don't want, you suffer;   even when you get exactly what...|||I'm going through such a chaotic and confusing time in my life right now.  I'm trying my very best to undo some toxic patterns that have plagued me for many, many years.  I just feel helpless...|||Nice to see you brownpanda.  I'm sorry I didn't post in your second thread, but I felt I didn't have anything to add when it comes to leadership.  I've never lead anyone in my life!    I've changed...|||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nBWweQHEH8|||Drum & Bass (I think?)     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD40VXFkusw  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svW2KL-9KQI  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kblNz93qWk|||Sunday|||For most of my life, i've been told I look sad, upset, or troubled, when i'm really feeling just fine.  If I don't smile, I guess I give off that vibe.  My whole face lights up when i'm actually...|||Sneeze|||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsW4FoRzhQw|||My first language is English, but I also speak and understand French perfectly.  It's kind of mandatory in Quebec to be able to communicate in both languages.  I learned it in elementary school...|||Haha...  Ok, it's times like this that I get really scared that I live so close to the American border (1.5 hour drive from Vermont).  Sure, I don't live in the USA, but i'm terrified at the idea of...|||Failure.|||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-3VF4hQAkU|||Umbrella|||My upper back is hurting me pretty badly right now, and it's freaking me out a bit.  This last Saturday, I decided to take the plunge and start the process of quitting smoking.  I didn't expect there...|||Riven   Click on the username above his avatar, and then click View Blog Entries.  It's actually a very interesting read, well done Stelliferous|||Sometimes, I feel like i'm not relating to people properly.  When I want to console someone or offer advice, I subconsciously (or sometimes, consciously) imagine that I am the other person who I am...|||Oh dear Leictreon, a lot of what you wrote are the very things I am struggling with right now in my life.  It's probably a good thing that you're thinking things over now at your age, because when I...|||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5r-TG8cCeE  In all seriousness, i'm superstitious about a lot of things.  For example, it really bugs me that the staircase in my house has exactly 13 steps. ...|||I need to quit smoking cigarettes.  I want to quit smoking cigarettes.  I'm finding it difficult to bring myself to draw a line in the sand and say: enough is enough, i'm doing this.  It's been on...|||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNB8r6zttDw|||Ok, I completely forgot this song existed.  When I was a teenager, I had a mix tape of songs I recorded off the radio with this song on it.  I remember listening to this on a loop when I went on a...|||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q10-jHmXr9I|||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QU1nvuxaMA  2:57 - 3:32 < -- :)|||I love being an INFP.  I really hate standing out in a crowd, but the fact that i'm so different from everyone else makes me do just that.  Individualistic/idealist?  Fine, that's me.  So...|||Random songs that I liked from various mixes:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U33HBe148N4   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9PfgnxtBeA   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzNwsCDClgc|||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9ctdyTB8o0  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deez_Nuts_(politician)|||I haven't spoken to my mother since she got re-married.  I don't even remember the year it happened, but it was somewhere around 2004-5.  I actually got into a fight with her a few months beforehand,...|||Yellow.  Subtle and pure,  enigmatic and humble Like golden rays of sunlight,  The source of all life, the essence of innocence,  or peace and love in all living things.   Yellow is surrender...|||I'm feeling overly optimistic today, so much so that I feel like I can accomplish anything I put my mind to.  Therein lies the problem: I want to do everything, and yet i'm having a hard time...|||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtbkz8jKKew|||Solemn Oath Love Eschew Minute (mai-knute) Neophyte Opulent Arcane Temperance Hope|||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw4EdN9B4sA  Made me think of this song again.  I guess Karleken means love in Swedish.|||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOC_ig7ezp8|||Meditation has changed me a lot in the last little while.  It's been three weeks now, and here are the differences that i've noticed:  I'm much calmer overall.  When I speak to people, i'm much...|||A few days ago, I discovered some of the most amazing and original music i've ever heard on youtube.  I randomly saw a composer called Adrian Von Ziegler in my recommended videos , and after...|||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1NlbYL3ySs|||When someone becomes angry with me, I tend to become incredibly docile and apologetic towards them.  I suppose I also respond with fear, to an extent.  It takes some pretty extreme anger directed...|||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKAoSY5bhSw  lol!  :p|||It's difficult to put into words for me, but i'll try.  To me, beauty is anything that makes me think and feel something strongly; to realize that there might be more underneath the surface.  I...|||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz66_RJCQyI|||I'm feeling upset with myself today, moreso than I have been in several weeks.  I had a bad bout of endless ruminating thoughts last night when I went to bed - I couldn't sleep for 3-4 hours.  I just...|||brownpanda  While i've never been responsible for leading a group of people in my career, I can definitely understand how that would be rough for you, because I am 100% sure I would have difficulty...|||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0vk5SGmw3w|||Hi,  I'm not familiar enough with cognitive functions to accurately assess your type, but i'll give some of my opinions in brief.  Have you taken the socionics, enneagram, and cognitive functions...'