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John's avatar

"...human beings can weather whatever storm as long as they are living a life aligned with their values." Far too many have delegated their values choices to the deities of modern culture. A life with more responsibility, discipline and stoic acceptance of the real world vs. the wanted pseudo-reality would also lead one towards a better grasp of the future possibilities. This is a small slice of today's culture.

Bottom line, hope for the best, plan for the worst, make the best of the place and time you are in.

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Gabriel's avatar

Maybe the appropriate Attitude is neither optimism nor pessimism, but simply humility. Being humble, we still try to know what we can do and feel compelled to do so when we see the need for it, but we never forget, that our agency is fundamentally limited.

We can make decisions within our limitations to focus our agency towards particular goals and particular ways of approaching them, but we will always pay a price for doing so in other regards.

Having agency fundamentally requires choice, which requires sacrifices, after all. So let's try to choose wisely what is worthy of sacrifice and what is worth losing.

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