10 Best Excuses - Common Sense, Explained

I received my feedback today from my session at Flash on the Beach.

There were some exceptions, but overall the feedback was very positive.

One comment struck me;
although he is a very inspiring person, and there were some real true facts in his seminar, had i expected more, some excuses everybody knows...

To be called "very inspiring" is something I've never heard before, but that's not what I wanted to talk about. What this person ended with was "some excuses everybody knows..."

Something everyone knows is normally considered common sense. I think that's why I chose to talk about it. Things that are common sense and things that should be common sense are night and day.

I don't light my head on fire because common sense dictates that it will hurt, harm, scar and otherwise kill me. Common sense tells me if I choose to play a video game for eight hours straight, I won't be actually working. Common sense also tells me if I am working on a project and start a new one, the original project will stop being worked on.

My talk and the excuses I explained occurred to me over a long period of time. I mentioned at the beginning that I have been a flash "guy" for over ten years. That's ten years of ignoring work, focusing on one job over another, playing video games, not being inspired or being TOO inspired. The thing that matters is not necessarily whether or not everyone knows these things, the thing that matters is whether or not you're solving your problems. My solutions weren't going to work for everyone, either. They work for me. I still find myself a victim of my own head. But I'm working on it.

Anyway, thanks for the feedback! I really enjoyed reading the comments. Even the bad ones. To clarify;

I am NOT American. I'm Canadian.

I wasn't hungover and never said I was. I said my voice was suffering due to flashonthebeach-itis. Otherwise known as, too much drinking, too much smoking, too much yelling and not enough sleep. But I was definitely not hungover for my session.