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Law #13: Humans are innately opportunistic.

The pic?  Why that's the Opportunity Mars rover.  It has absolutely nothing to do with this post other than it's called Opportunity.

I got to thinking that whoever coined the phrase "crimes of opportunity" wasn't too far off from unlocking the true nature of humans.  The concept is simple.  People are perfectly ok with lying, cheating, and stealing so long as they are provided with the opportunity.  The average human's ability to find opportunity is almost instinctual.  The ability shoots to astronomical levels when people are aware they can actually exhort opportunity without fear of retribution.

It's not particularly a bad instinct though.  It's just bad most of the time.

Daddy Needs A New Pair Of Shoes!

Law #12: There is no luck; only numbers.

So played any games of chance lately?  There's a reason they're called games of chance.  Chances are you're gonna lose.  Webster defines luck as "a force that brings good fortune or adversity" and "the events or circumstances that operate for or against an individual".  Truth is it's all about probabilities.  Crunch enough probabilities and you'll find they're mostly working against you.

I say this as a warning. If you're waiting for your "luck" to change then you really oughta stop waiting and do something.  Waiting puts the probability of things happening at about 0.

Simon Pegg Gets It

Law #11: Don't be afraid to be who you are.  Life is too short to pretend to be someone you aren't.

 I ran across this image on Google+ (don't ask) and I knew right away I should make a law about it.  If you're here then you're most likely familiar with my other blog: The Renegade Geek.  Believe it or not (I know some of you are too young to rem...oh never mind), there was a time when geek and nerd culture were ridiculed and considered outcasts.  Well yours truly was always a geek.  I'll let you draw your own images of what that was like for me.  However, I was always me and I don't regret that.  Since I spent so much time on the outside looking in, I was a keen observer.  I noticed that people tended to put on a mask to fit in and hid their interests and talents if they felt it would threaten their acceptance.  You're probably looking back on your younger years right now thinking about that one thing you loved but you knew it would brand you if you were ever caught practicing it.  And now you're probably thinking about how much time you wasted doing so when you could have been doing THAT.

Simon's right.  Being a geek IS extremely liberating.  It's about saying "Hey world, this is me and I don't really care what you think about that.".  In that respect, we can all be geeks.