Faith in Fortune
2018-09-16
Title is tentative.
Luckily, it always turns out as expected.
Good luck that it always works out.
If you're properly aware of the outside world, it will soon be gone.
The latter always perceive things as "going well" even when things don't go as expected.
I have never failed."
Even when things don't go as expected, "it is what it is supposed to be."
I don't consider myself to have incurred unnecessary costs due to bad luck.
Always recognize that you "got it".
Not living up to expectations is a learning experience.
Action is strongly encouraged because the result of action is always "got
In reality, there may be costs incurred for no good reason due to bad luck, but a cognitive distortion that does not recognize so, a kind of just world hypothesis. 2024-08-26
The "it'll work out" part reminded me of "Stockdale's Paradox.
I don't consider myself to have incurred unnecessary costs due to bad luck.
I see it as a positive thing, "an opportunity for growth." In other words, when you randomly get positive and negative results with equal probability, even though scientifically the expected value is zero, if some of the negative ones turn positive due to cognitive distortion or non linear evaluation axes, then subjectively it becomes "positive on average". A casual expression of this would be "I am lucky." Scientifically, this is true even if the expected value is zero, but in practice, perhaps due to "human cognitive distortions that cause us to see the negative side of uncertainty as greater when there is uncertainty," the estimated return on uncertain actions is irrationally negatively skewed, so that competitive resources are left there a lot more than if people behaved rationally. left out there a lot more than if they had behaved rationally.
As a result, those with cognitive distortions that make the negative appear positive can obtain at a lower cost the resources left untouched by the majority with cognitive distortions that make the negative appear large
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