I love this post. Support for seeing the harder toil of life without necessarily being overcome is, in my view, one of the things I've seen least well done leas

I love this post. Support for seeing the harder toil of life without necessarily being overcome is, in my view, one of the things I've seen least well done least performed least demonstrated for developing youth. Semi related, been re-reading Ministry for the Future, and we just had a blurb on the Availability Hueristic, the preference for relying on what you know & is familiar. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic A main character is trying to face the larger world of issues, to see other things, & not let avoidance take over. This empathy for, willingness to tangle in more tham you know & more than what's familiar often involves looking into the fear-spots, in recognizing bigger scarrier parts of the world. It's a huge skill that, for me, growing up & as an adult, has been such a reliable mark of character & interestingness, was the boundary between a maturing engaged useful person & a scary ineard facing existence that lacks a empathy, a willingness to see beyond themself. Seeing beyond yourself, overcoming the Availability Hueristic, Seeing into the Abyss seem all related & high value, define a higher order humanness that I wish to see spread & grow through humanity, that we need to work on. But which are vastly underdescribed, under emphasized, under-spoken. Glad to have this post.