Let’s Sustain Hope

There’s already enough negativity and resignation

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Sometimes, in their hoping, people do exaggerate things and possibilities. But we shouldn’t be quick to correct these exaggerations, for they have a purpose. They denote dreams and possibilities that become a basis for action. People may not become what they dreamed of, but they will end up much better than would have been the case without their exaggerated dreams.

Let people believe they’ll live to demonstrate survivorship bias; let them believe they’ll become the exception. They probably won’t be these things, but they will do better than they could have done by consuming your doses of reality.

Take away hope and people stop trying; lock them in forever wars and they don’t see themselves living long enough (to merit working hard); saddle them with debt and they wonder why they should bother to earn any money; pollute the dating pool and they’ll forever frown at relationships.

Whatever we do, let’s not kill hope, for to do so is to create an environment where people do not have the incentive to try becoming anything. Youngsters will become delinquents, investors will hoard money, no one will want to fall in love, and nations, seeing their survival as necessitating the annihilation of competitors and rivals, will become endlessly belligerent.