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2. We need to handle other day-to-day things in the meantime, and so eventually we turn our attention to those, and when it turns out our other life-strategies still work, we sort of shrug:"maybe Big Problem wasn't so big after all, if I can still work around it."
6. Venkat had a good line I can’t track down about first-world moralism re: order-of-operations in problem solving, something like:“A recipient of charity should not spend any money on fun until he's solved the basic boring problems."
one that I can think of is how injury-related compensatory movement patterns take about two weeks to get establishedafter that, even once healed your nervous system has no reason to ever stop limping. it takes some fancy physical therapy or a lot of conscious awareness to fix
And, we know from history that surveillance societies don't thrive. They choke themselves out and die, slowly, painfully, while limping down a miserable road of shame, guilt, and backstabbing. This is the most obvious thing in the world.
This angle makes more apparent why ignoring problems is an important ability. Also hints that expanding your RANGE of "willingness to be irritated by this problem, or ignore it" is key to long-term success.https://t.co/WPMMfNTYUT