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> The best conversations make your ideas better and feel magical. The worst conversations make all thoughts blurry and leave you pessimistic. But what about t
by recursivedoubts 6y ago
> The best conversations make your ideas better and feel magical. The worst conversations make all thoughts blurry and leave you pessimistic.
But what about the conversations that make your ideas better and leave you pessimistic?
Or is that uncommon for other people?
- happytoexplain 6y agoWhy would you become more pessimistic if a conversation enabled you to improve your ideas?
- recursivedoubts 6y agoyou can start here: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Arthur_Schopenhauer https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Arthur_Schopenhauer
- oh_sigh 6y agoIf you start with an overly optimistic view of reality and then are brought back down to earth?
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- wellpast 6y agoWhat would be an example? Someone convinces you that devastating climate change is unavoidable? Or that life is meaningless? Here's an idea, an axiom perhaps: It's impossible, by definition, for any idea to be innately pessimistic.
- shkkmo 6y agoIs it possibly for any idea to be anything innately? Or are all attributes of an idea dependant on the connections made between that idea and other ideas?
- wtetzner 6y agoExcept he said the conversation could leave you pessimistic, even if the idea improved. Perhaps you were overly optimistic about your idea, and the conversation both pointed out how the idea can improve, as well as why the idea is not as good as you originally thought it was.