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"It's easy to retroactively give a positive interpretation to any life choice" It's not only easy, the brain is probably very eager to do this all the time, so
by arnorhs 17y ago
"It's easy to retroactively give a positive interpretation to any life choice"
It's not only easy, the brain is probably very eager to do this all the time, so that we'll feel the last 5,10,20,50 years of our life wasn't a complete waste of time
- msluyter 17y agoYes. The book Stumbling on Happiness discusses this a lot, and I highly recommend it.
- scott_s 17y agoI posit that people who can't convince themselves that most of their life decisions, no matter how arbitrary, turned out good in the end are depressed.
- lessallan 17y agoScott that's an really interesting perspective.