don’t get caught monologuing

Time for some more Pixar life lessons. (There are many!)

Sometimes, blogging feels like another word for ‘not doing’. I find myself wallowing in intellectual ideas that are a far cry from real, tangible action. It can also feel (particularly when very few people comment) like a solitary – and therefore doubly detached – experience.

Of course the good things about blogging outweigh the bad, but the last thing anyone should want to do is disappear into their own rhetoric while the real world needs their pragmatic attention.

In The Incredibles, there is a running joke about baddies ‘monologuing’. This self-indulgent rambling is often their downfall:

Just a little reminder to myself not to get caught monologuing.

4 comments tagged: ,
  • http://www.charlesfrith.com Charles Frith

    That’s why I drop by frequently. I don’t want to see you slip into monomania. HNY Andy.

  • andy

    Thanks Charles, it’s appreciated. I feel like an elderly person in a home and you’re my only offspring ;)

  • http://www.noahbrier.com Noah Brier

    :) this made me laugh. Thanks Andy.

  • http://www.no-mans-blog.com Asi

    Funny.

    But one should also avoid over-doing. It can be very tiring

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYyuZNNg7R4