Because of my past, I carry around a big pile of financial anxiety. The past few years of political and economic tumult have been really difficult for that even though thankfully I'm currently in a great economic position. But, paradoxically, the better I am financially, the more stressed I feel because I just have more to lose. Anxiety is a bitch.
Either way, my impression of the article is that by "weird", the author doesn't mean "risky" or "impulsive" like you're inferring. I interpreted it to mean more along the lines of "wouldn't be appealing or resonating to many other folks." Something that appeals strongly to your own particular quirks and felicities.
Lots of people would want to take a few weeks in Costa Rica if they got laid off. And after Pollan's "How to Change Your Mind" there are a hell of a lot of people taking psychedelic trips. That's not particularly weird.
Weird would be more like getting laid off and deciding to make a go at becoming a full time poet.
> my impression of the article is that by "weird", the author doesn't mean "risky" or "impulsive" like you're inferring.
I agree. I think the author was pretty forthcoming about what he meant: he meant that we often write off possible things we want to do on the basis that they're "weird" -- in the sense that we think others will reject those things.
But doing that is a trap and we shouldn't avoid options purely based on what we think others will think about them.
Either way, my impression of the article is that by "weird", the author doesn't mean "risky" or "impulsive" like you're inferring. I interpreted it to mean more along the lines of "wouldn't be appealing or resonating to many other folks." Something that appeals strongly to your own particular quirks and felicities.
Lots of people would want to take a few weeks in Costa Rica if they got laid off. And after Pollan's "How to Change Your Mind" there are a hell of a lot of people taking psychedelic trips. That's not particularly weird.
Weird would be more like getting laid off and deciding to make a go at becoming a full time poet.