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“Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.” – Arthur Schopenhauer “Your personal experiences make up <0.0001% of what’s happened in the world but 80% of how you think the world works. When experiencing a fraction of what’s out there but using that to explain everything you expect to happen, you’ll be disappointed & confused by others’ decisions.” (@dineshraju quoting @morganhousel) There are more people (8 billion) in the world than seconds in your life (2-3 billion seconds.) I think its very important to be able to believe that there are people in the world who are different than you, who believe in different things than you, who function differently than you, perceive and experience reality differently than you, in ways you might struggle to imagine. I don’t know if “important” is the right word to use there. Gratifying? Mind-expanding? Even the concept of “important” is just one way of thinking about things, and we are impoverished if th

&#8220;Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.&#8221; – Arthur Schopenhauer &#8220;Your personal experiences make up <0.0001% of what’s happened in the world but 80% of how you think the world works. When experiencing a fraction of what’s out there but using that to explain everything you expect to happen, you&#8217;ll be disappointed & confused by others’ decisions.&#8221; ( @dineshraju quoting @morganhousel ) There are more people (8 billion) in the world than seconds in your life (2-3 billion seconds.) I think its very important to be able to

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