Courage is probably the highest ROI character trait right now & the most valuable form isn't one most of us have practiced. It's not taking the leap, it's maintaining focus & enthusiasm while you're in freefall
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a very, very tragic thing is the population of people who take their own lives directly or via e.g. opioid addiction due to a loss of meaning or a chronic intolerable anxiety over loneliness or poverty, conditions that IMO can only be mitigated via powerful self-sustaining hope
it's not anyone's "fault" for falling into such despair, but I think we could all be part of creating a culture that's protective against it — a better social safety net is part of the answer, but without a visceral hope/optimism accompanying it, it's not sufficient
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my current thinking is that a balanced structure of practical activity and consciously maintained delusion is how this is addressed; the problem is it would appear to be impossible to propagate this idea while propagating good judgment about what delusions to have along with it
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mass scale life coaching does not seem like the most practical intervention
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I often wonder if we don't create the wrong cultural expectations at a deeper level by instilling a sense that one should be hopeful and optimistic instead of some less pleasant worldview. 1/2
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Then, I'm wildly divergent as a sample so I'm in a poor position to judge. You're likely correct for the majority of cases. There was just no way to fit those ideas in 1 tweet I could find 2/2
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