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To view keyboard shortcuts, press question mark View keyboard shortcuts 20+ Post Reply See new posts Conversation croissanthology @croissanthology What we call “wisdom” is often just “so deeply accepting the way things are going to go that you’re always living in the future”. If you grab for an extra candy bar after lunch and mentally multiply that decision by 365, you know where you’ll end up in a year, and you can just live in that future NOW (and drop the candy bar, because 365*no-candy-bar is the better future); If you predict you’ll go through a specific character arc at some point, and you keep bemoaning it out loud to your friends, you could just skip all the fuss and live in the future NOW. You could escape your alcoholism arc NOW. You could refuse that nicotine NOW. You could skip that whole edgy teenager phase where you take ideas way too seriously and believe you can flout the EMH where it clearly applies NOW (cf. @alexeyguzey 's sleeping arc). Being wise isn’t that har

croissanthology @croissanthology What we call “wisdom” is often just “so deeply accepting the way things are going to go that you’re always living in the future”. If you grab for an extra candy bar after lunch and mentally multiply that decision by 365, you know where you’ll end up in a year, and you can just live in that future NOW (and drop the candy bar, because 365*no-candy-bar is the better future); If you predict you’ll go through a specific character arc at some point, and you keep bemoaning it out loud to your friends, you could just skip all the fuss and live in the future NOW. You co

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