Most of our energy is spent on what-ifs instead of what is.
I think it's because we believe we can predict the future. Prevent calamities and participate in moon-shots.
But trying to prevent a future calamity won't make it any less unlikely. Trying to predict the next moon shot won't ensure your ticket to ride. Any energy spent on what-ifs is wasted energy.
When we witness a calamity we think the cause is a lack of foresight.
When we witness a moonshot we believe the cause to be great foresight.
Just like chasing happiness is one of the faster paths away from it. Trying to predict the future, spending all your energy thinking about it, is one of the fastest paths away from the future.
The people who end up on the moon didn't spend most their energy thinking about the moon.
The people who get struck by calamity, find themselves in a hole, didn't get there because they didn't think enough about the future.
What gets anyone where they want to be -- without being lucky/unlucky -- is actually seeing the present. Realizing and understanding what is.
And what is is too great, too real to look at while thinking about what-if.
I think it's because we believe we can predict the future. Prevent calamities and participate in moon-shots.
But trying to prevent a future calamity won't make it any less unlikely. Trying to predict the next moon shot won't ensure your ticket to ride. Any energy spent on what-ifs is wasted energy.
When we witness a calamity we think the cause is a lack of foresight.
When we witness a moonshot we believe the cause to be great foresight.
Just like chasing happiness is one of the faster paths away from it. Trying to predict the future, spending all your energy thinking about it, is one of the fastest paths away from the future.
The people who end up on the moon didn't spend most their energy thinking about the moon.
The people who get struck by calamity, find themselves in a hole, didn't get there because they didn't think enough about the future.
What gets anyone where they want to be -- without being lucky/unlucky -- is actually seeing the present. Realizing and understanding what is.
And what is is too great, too real to look at while thinking about what-if.
Thinking about what-ifs usually implies using a large number of unknown variables as premises. The more unknowns get into your hypothesis the more possible outcomes can come out of it. If this is the desired outcome, everything is alright. I guess the issue lies with the involvement of our Ego in this process when the subject is involved in the projection. What kind of what-ifs do you have in mind? Like, investing in the right crypto or something like that?
You are approaching what i'm expressing here when you talk about
For now TLDR: the person who invests as their actual truthful what-is rather than what-ifs is someone like
The fomo investor spends their time only on the what-ifs. moon city