kevin old - my take on life as a geek

I’m a fan of The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch watched a show I’d DVR’d the other day. The show was about the "Comeback" mindset. Most of us know that our dreams don’t come true overnight and that on the way to our dreams we often have a hard road and sometimes get discouraged. The show featured people who had been knocked down, but came back.

Of the guests on the show the following quote by Dr. Karen Reivich made the most impact on me:

Resilience. It’s learnable. The heart of resilience is believing that you can affect change. [It] might not affect the whole situation, but there is an aspect of the situation you can control.

Excellent advice not only when times are tough, but as motivation when solving even the most difficult day-to-day problems.

I’m not sure how I’ve made it this far in my career and never knew that grep had a color option to highlight the term you’re searching for in the results.  Guess I’ve never really needed it that bad, but since stumbling across this, it’s made things a lot easier to view.

To make this seamless you can add this to your .bash_rc or .bash_profile:

alias grep="grep --color=auto"

Thanks to asommer’s .bash_rc for pointing this out.