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that's putting the causality backwards. you should aim to have interesting experiences and thoughts. the failure and unhappiness will follow if that's what's in
by clairity 6y ago
that's putting the causality backwards. you should aim to have interesting experiences and thoughts. the failure and unhappiness will follow if that's what's in store. if you aim for failure and unhappiness (the poor proxy), it's likely you'll miss out on the interesting experiences and thoughts, which is the meaningful part.
this is, again, how we get unintended (and unwanted) consequences in so many aspects of our lives (partisanship is another good example).
- munificent 6y ago> that's putting the causality backwards. Sure, I didn't necessarily claim that my list was literally true. Just a thought exercise. > you should aim to have interesting experiences and thoughts. I think is as prone to Goodhart's Law as my suggestion to aim for unhappiness. If you try to deliberately aim for interesting experiences and avoid uninteresting ones, you'll need to gather some data first. So you ask around and see what experiences other people find interesting. But, of course, what could be more uninteresting than doing what everyone else thinks is interesting?
- clairity 6y ago> "But, of course, what could be more uninteresting than doing what everyone else thinks is interesting?" so why define your happiness primarily on what others think? a false premise, at the very least (but one many of us do seem to fall for from time to time). as @Bakary originally suggested, interesting lives don't seem to be led so deliberately.