[extropy-chat] Mature rationality

[Mike Lorrey]

--- Zero Powers <zero.powers at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I did everything I could to convince myself that my self-doubts were
> unfounded, even though those doubts had a very rational basis.  But
> the whole time I was convincing myself I fully realized that my faith
> in my success would make it that much more likely that I'd actually
> be
> able to do it.  I guess we could argue about it, but its seems to me
> that I was being very rational in my self-motivational techniques,
> rather than irrational.

Sorry, zero, you were being entirely loopy. Welcome to the club.

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Mike Lorrey
Chairman, Free Town Land Development
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                         -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
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Mike Lorrey
Chairman, Free Town Land Development
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                         -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
Blog: http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=Sadomikeyism


		
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