# Being Good can be Bad

*What I've Been Thinking About Lately #3*

By [WIBTAL](https://wibtal.com) · 2023-07-07

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Being good at the wrong thing is worse than being bad at the wrong thing. If you hate being a lawyer, but you're good at it, you feel stuck because of others expectations of you. If you're a bad lawyer, no one cares if you fuck off and do something you like.

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The body contains an incredible amount of knowledge, unknown to the conscious brain, learned from generations of evolution. This is practically never appreciated or acknowledged by anyone. How do I stop bleeding when I have a cut, make my heart beat, or display a continuous pane of vision when my eyes have partially redundant fields of vision? I don't know, but my body does.

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*Originally published on [WIBTAL](https://wibtal.com/3)*