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Many humans spend their formative years learning that they can overcome most obstacles with enough effort and willpower. This optimism carries over to their ad
by samplatt 2y ago
Many humans spend their formative years learning that they can overcome most obstacles with enough effort and willpower.
This optimism carries over to their adult life, despite the newer obstacles being infinitely more difficult and complex so as to be incomparable.
- oasisaimlessly 2y agoThat's not relevant to assuming that the rest of the solar system is lifeless; I'm assuming you didn't see what GP was replying to. Anyway, in general, over-optimism is much better than the opposite, because over-optimism runs into contradictions and gets corrected much more quickly than pessimism does, if it ever does.