[bluishgreen]

"Trust me, you’re not, and no matter how much you think you know about what it’s going to be like, when that first jab comes, you’ll begin to truly understand for the first time."

I think some one has to pitch in and add some perspective here. This, frankly is not helping. I appreciate the warnings and all - but the echo chamber is getting a bit too loud lately. The worst thing that will happen is I will fail. Miserably and in front of the whole world for everyone to see the weakling stupid naive ass that I am. Whats so bad about that? Relax people, stay calm. It will all work out just fine. Trust me! :)

[paraschopra]

I used "Trust me" in a blog post http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/split-testing-blog/debunki... and my friend quickly reminded me that it is a cliche and usually doesn't add much value to the argument. Ideally, your argument should be so strong that it doesn't require an explicit reminder for readers to trust you.

[bluishgreen]

We only have a bunch of things going on for us. Happiness, Love, Adventure, Sadness and Loneliness. But would you rather not be happy because it is cliche. Emotion is cliche and so is cliche. The above post was not to appeal to your logical sense but rather to intuition. So I don't really have a case as to why you should trust me. In fact that part was to inspire some stupidity. The line between stupidity and adventure is a very thin one. Find yours. I will just stand out here on the stupid side and shout out some encouragement. Thats all.

[aberman]

Nothing is so bad about that. I'm not trying to say that life is going to suck, you are going to fail, and therefore you should never try.

I'm just saying that "knowing" something will be hard, and experiencing something that is hard are two very different things. And to the extent that you can prepare yourself for what's about to come, it will be much easier for you to resist the urge to quit.