I'm not trying to pick on you. The opposite actually, I'm trying to help you. I see this really negative defeatist mindset almost constantly amongst millennials.
If your mindset is only focused on how things will never work out and fail, your outcome will be things never working out and failure.
You should checkout 'The Power of Positive Thinking'. It might help you reframe your world view to something more constructive for you.
The author Norman Vincent Peale was also Trump's family pastor. If you do end up checking it out, you'll see a lot of parallels between what Trump does and what the book talks about.
My mindset is focused on the possibilities of what can and may go wrong and how to deal with them, it is called thinking ahead, and being a realist. Optimism, in my personal opinion, is a fool's end, leaving you open and vulnerable without any benefit except making you feel better.
I don't want to feel better, I want to BE better. I can't do that by just thinking about how neat things could be. I have to consider the reality of what's going on while facing the facts of the situation and plan and act accordingly.
You sound incredibly naive and you trying to direct me to some hippy self help book just reinforces my suspicion that you are in fact some trust fund kid who hasn't had to actually deal with the world when shit hits the fan.
I don't consider my mindset defeatist, its strategic, I have to think ahead, because if I don't, I'm screwed. If one more thing goes wrong, I've got to start back at square one again, so there isn't any room for error where I am currently at. What you're advocating for requires so much wiggle room you can practically fit a stadium inside of it.
The world isn't nice, it isn't easy, things rarely go to plan, and if you don't take steps to protect yourself, the fallout may extend beyond just yourself. You must think ahead, and you must consider what may go wrong. It's like why we keep a fire extinguisher or first aid kit on hand, we don't intend for fires to erupt around us or for injury to befall us, but it's the 'just in case' contingency, a precautionary measure. How I think and how I act is exactly in line with that.
I'm not trying to pick on you. The opposite actually, I'm trying to help you. I see this really negative defeatist mindset almost constantly amongst millennials.
If your mindset is only focused on how things will never work out and fail, your outcome will be things never working out and failure.
You should checkout 'The Power of Positive Thinking'. It might help you reframe your world view to something more constructive for you.
The author Norman Vincent Peale was also Trump's family pastor. If you do end up checking it out, you'll see a lot of parallels between what Trump does and what the book talks about.
My mindset is focused on the possibilities of what can and may go wrong and how to deal with them, it is called thinking ahead, and being a realist. Optimism, in my personal opinion, is a fool's end, leaving you open and vulnerable without any benefit except making you feel better.
I don't want to feel better, I want to BE better. I can't do that by just thinking about how neat things could be. I have to consider the reality of what's going on while facing the facts of the situation and plan and act accordingly.
You sound incredibly naive and you trying to direct me to some hippy self help book just reinforces my suspicion that you are in fact some trust fund kid who hasn't had to actually deal with the world when shit hits the fan.
I don't consider my mindset defeatist, its strategic, I have to think ahead, because if I don't, I'm screwed. If one more thing goes wrong, I've got to start back at square one again, so there isn't any room for error where I am currently at. What you're advocating for requires so much wiggle room you can practically fit a stadium inside of it.
The world isn't nice, it isn't easy, things rarely go to plan, and if you don't take steps to protect yourself, the fallout may extend beyond just yourself. You must think ahead, and you must consider what may go wrong. It's like why we keep a fire extinguisher or first aid kit on hand, we don't intend for fires to erupt around us or for injury to befall us, but it's the 'just in case' contingency, a precautionary measure. How I think and how I act is exactly in line with that.