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Old 11-16-2007, 10:02 AM
Sciolist Sciolist is offline
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Default Re: General life questions / observations / random whatever thread

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The only real risk of delusion is that I find people will often delude themselves on the definition of success. If you can avoid that then you should be able to self-evaluate accurately.

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Another risk of delusion is thinking that "something will come to save me". Sure, it probably did once, but that was just random chance and you can't rely on it happening again. Nassim Taleb wrote a couple of books that're about this kind of thing.
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