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by throwa836373
1107 days ago
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I think you should think about it in terms of how much “naive optimism” you want to foster in your friends. In truth, there’s good reasons do doubt every project, even the ones that end up being highly succesfull. Unfortunately, it seems like human beings are highly pulled towards either working on something with unrealistic confidence, or sitting on the the couch and watching netflix. Working on something with unrealistic confidence, even if that project itself is completely doomed to failure, is probably better for you than watching Netflix. The one exception is, there is a higher than average probability that startup people with naive optimism end up getting into a position where they decide to end their life. |
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As someone who’s heavily biased towards just sitting on the couch (but reading a book, not watching Netflix :)), but married to an unrealistically confident wife, I have to agree.
I tend to panic whenever my wife comes up with her way-too-frequent ideas and goes ahead with them with minimal risk analysis, but at the end of the day she’s a much more accomplished and satisfied person than I am. I tend to look at every project from the most pessimistic angle possible and the end result is that I almost never actually do anything. I have a lot of book knowledge about a number of things but little to no experience, whereas she’s the exact opposite, and that tends to be more beneficial in real life.