Lorec on Parakeet’s Substack

> Optimism through a lifetime of misery isn’t luck or delusion. It's discipline disguised as temperament, paid for in a thousand grueling moments when they strangled their own knee-jerk pessimism. The rest of us just weren't watching closely enough to see the training program running in the background. We thought they were just being naive.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Not to be that guy, but you haven't read the Sequences. Some people live lives where optimism [/low risk-aversion] appears to solve things, and this itself is largely a product of luck. Most people live lives where low risk-aversion would be insanity. I think you are committing the common TPOT/TLP error of noticing that rich/powerful/healthy people are happier than you, and harshly blaming some kind of perniciously invisible emotional deficit for your own misfortune.