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#376 - Beau Lotto - The Neuroscience Of Awe, Distraction and Anxiety
Modern Wisdom
Optimism as Measured
We often tell ourselves, we rationalize, that we were either the victim or the unintended. When something good happens, you think it's going to last forever and is largely because of me. That's an optimistic person. The more sort of stoic, the more the more sort of realist, is like, actually, this good thing that happened is kanda, not just because of me, it's also because of you. This bad thing that happened isn't just because I did it; it was circumstance too. And so in engaging with the world with that humility, an openness to the possibility that you had some agency in whether it went wrong or whether it went well. It
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