What if you could do it all over? (2020)
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What if you could do it all over? (2020)
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#3My life turned out alright. Full of problems, pains and questions like everyone's else's but, in the grand scheme of things, I'm incredibly fortunate given the amount of poverty and misery in this world.
I always liked the thought experiment of living my life again. However, I'm much more interested in the thought of living in the future. If I could do it again, I'd take the risk of living 1000 years from now. I know this could be a mistake, but I'm an optimist.
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#4I have always found this question haunting. I would imagine if I had the ability to forever banish a single though from my head, this would be it.
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#5I have always found this question haunting. I would imagine if I had the ability to forever banish a single though from my head, this would be it.
Maybe an alternative perspective helps. If you could always do it over, an infinite redo so to say, nothing would matter. Every choice and outcome would become insignificant, because you could just redo it until it was just right. On the flip side, there's always going to be something that you miss out on, no matter how many times you could do it, some choices simply exclude other outcomes and you can't have both. The fact that you can't simply redo things is in a way what gives them value and meaning — what you choose matters.
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#6Family and children eliminated thoughts of my “unlived” lives.
Life is hard. Focusing on gratitude helps me be thankful for what I have instead of thinking about what may have been.
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#7If you had perfect future knowledge (which is what this article is really about) you wouldn't want to invent Slack (or Google), which lets face it would have been a ton of work with a very uncertain outcome. You'd want to invest in Slack / Google at some early stage, do no work whatsoever, and enjoy the proceeds.
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#8My life turned out alright. Full of problems, pains and questions like everyone's else's but, in the grand scheme of things, I'm incredibly fortunate given the amount of poverty and misery in this world. I always liked the thought experiment of living my life again. However, I'm much more interested in the thought of living in the future . If I could do it again, I'd take the risk of living 1000 years from now. I kno…
It'd just be the same game in a different environment, with an inventory of items from a different tech tree.
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#9I stand for every decision I made even if they were not perfect from current perspective. I can compare starting conditions of other kids from same school and I must admit, I am doing amazingly well. I am pretty sure I don’t want it to do all over. The future is more exciting. It became clear, I can’t pull all alone patient monitoring startup and I need to do something simpler during the time I have. I rolled the dice and let’s see decade later if it worked out. It’s so exciting!
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#10I would be less of an a*** and a bit braver, but otherwise mostly the same.