I am going to explain about my own folly, first. I had a dress made for a public, dancing exhibition. I was asked to buy elastic for the skirt because the dress was not finished on the afternoon of the performance. I complied.

All the time I was driving to a fabric store I was composing an angry letter in my head. Why I, as a performer in this dance troupe, had to complete my own costume was making me very mad!

When I began to calm myself. I understood that I had the power to stop this slipshod costume making, when it was obvious that I was going to have a costume not worth money I was spending on it. I have learned to:

1. Stop a folly from becoming wasteful and costly, when the signs all point in the direction of not meeting professional standards. Intuition will win out.
2. Compose yourself, (myself), when there is time to reflect upon the situation, calmly.
3. Negotiate with the "folly maker" and express your need to reach common ground.
4. Learn, too, that committing a silly folly is often based on vanity and ego needs.
5. Learn from being silly!