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Above all else, the mentat must be a generalist, not a specialist. It is wise to have decisions of great moment monitored by generalists. Experts and specialists lead you quickly into chaos. They are a source of useless nit-picking, the ferocious quibble over a comma. The mentat-generalist, on the other hand, should bring to decision-making a healthy common sense. He must not cut himself off from the broad sweep of what is happening in his universe. He must remain capable of saying: "There's no real mystery about this at the moment. This is what we want now. It may prove wrong later, but we'll correct that when we come to it." The mentat-generalist must understand that anything which we can identify as our universe is merely part of larger phenomena. But the expert looks backward; he looks into the narrow standards of his own specialty. The generalist looks outward; he looks for living principles, knowing full well that such principles change, that they develop. It is to the characteristics of change itself that the mentat-generalist must look. There can be no permanent catalouge of such change, no handbook or manual. You must look at it with as few preconceptions as possible, asking yourself: "Now what is this thing doing?"

-- The Mentat Handbook

in case you're wondering...

i'm currently reading Children of Dune - Frank Herbert

a babble

i'm on a mission
in a previous entry i babbled a tiny bit about that i need more local friends
and well as i always say, and kal always yells at me about

don't whine, DO something about it

well ok... how DOES one MAKE friends?? i mean really, i don't think this is something i've ever spent huge amounts of time thinking about,

so i thought and i thought, and well one step is to get BACK in contact with the good friends that i have just drifted from, so i emailed one of my bestest friends Grg, and he should be calling me today YAY

but, he's still hours away, not drop over for coffee distance, and my BEST friend nadin, is god knows where, she left without saying goodbye and her computer is in guam, and i suppose she's in texas, she left me no way to contact her :/

ok well, so the initial point was NEW friends, yes? well .. hmmm .. uh, ok the internet, can one make LOCAL friends on the internet? then i thought, hmm livejournal
so i spent two days searching thru CA livejournals looking for interesting people, i added a couple people to my friends list (see friends! i did it, *snicker* ok well not really) one step i suppose, one girl i added that's fairly close is a girl who calls herself starjunkie i added her to friends list, and fully intended to email her

why haven't i yet?
*snork* ask Cyd and giggle about random eris emails, i'm a fuckin spazz, and i get really confused with introduction emails, what should i say about myself? i feel like i have to sell myself and that's silly
and i'm pretty sure *i'd* ignore an email that goes like this:

Hi, my name is eris, will you be my friend?

*wild giggles* ok now i'm being silly, i should write to her, yeah i probably will

now? nah, now i'm waiting for phone call from GRG! Grg The Defender of the Naked and Confused!!

:)