>> Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why so great a proportion of men ... It is so easy to be immature. If I have a book to serve as my understanding, a pastor to serve as my conscience, a physician to determine my diet for me, and so on, I need not exert myself at all. I need not think, if only I can pay: others will readily undertake the irksome work for me.
This is beautiful in its simplicity and still has a piece of truth. But a more elaborate modern take would be probably that we also have finite resources. I do believe for instance that the earth surface is spherical, although I cann't immediately come up with an argument to prove this. I have not personally traveled around the world in a boat or launched satellites.
It seems that there is fundamentally no choice but to trust some people or traditions of thought on some things and then somehow to decide when to start doubting. Which is why fake news is a problem, for instance.
1) There is almost always a pretty good reason why things are the way they are in spite of what it seems.
2) There is almost always a pretty good reason why people do what they do in spite of what it seems.
3) Everyone else is not at idiot in spite of what I think.
4) I'm no better than anyone else in spite of what I secretly believe.
Actually, the lack of appreciation of these truths is widespread across age. It's just that older people tend to be a little more patient and can more easily deal with their frustrations.
There is a meme gif that sums this up perfectly
The gif in question has two figures discussing a 6 on the ground which is 6 from one person’s perspective and 9 from the other person’s perspective.
2/2) “I never make predictions, especially about the future” aka Acceptable choices at the time
If you did good work, and operated with as many of the facts that you had at the time, then that is a great outcome.
Not all the facts are known. Even when all the facts are known the choices may be a coin toss. Do not beat yourself up if a choice did not work out
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