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13/ So, do you really want your desire met? Do you want to be happy? What next... Something to think about

14/ (Creating new desires can be an expensive process, and should be kept to the minimum, but they still should be continuously created to ensure the maximum utility of your existence. That's a topic for another day ....)

15/ Am old friend when discussing this once said: In my opinion, It's arrogant to think that I can change the world ... but it's also delusional to think that I can't make a difference.

16/ cont.. So I am more of the opinion of: - Minimising cost of experimentation (trying to achieve desires) - Trying my best, asserting influence when I can

17/ cont.. - Trying to create conditions where other people can try their best (and take credit for it). this is important when your desires involve other people doing something for your desires to be met - Authoritatively reeling experiments back if things happen to go awry

18: ### The Takeaway Rule-of-thumb "Adjust Expectations. Not Desires"

19/ Both are mental constructs, projections into an unknown future. Expectations give us a rational framework for prediction. Desires give us purpose and passion and a stake in altering this "expected" future. But they also create potential for significant disappointment.

20/ Various post-Aristotlian philosophical schools emphasized limitation or renouncation of "desires" essentially in order to liimit "pain and sufffering" of disappoinment. See Stoicism and Epicureanism, for example...