[erikerikson]

> Denial is the only way to cope

I disagree. We can accept that we have a feeling of impossibility and still continue engaging in behaviors we predict to have a more positive outcome than any others. After all, have you ever been wrong? I have.

Occasionally the bulk of our actions create emergent shifts. It seems we will have to make adjustments and there may well be horrid consequences but the severity of those remains under our adjustment.

I'm surprised to read this on Hacker News, one of the homes of "impossible" successes.