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Jacob Rowland Tate's avatar

Applying this books concepts to human behavior has been kind of a revelation to me. ESP in identifying and seeking positive feedback loops for myself and avoiding negative ones.

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The Living Philosophy's avatar

Don't forget those balancing feedback loops which feed you back that information from reality. Don't wanna be one of those unfortunates who only listened to the positive feedback loops and whose attempts at flight were met with an unfortunate collision with the balancing feedback of gravity.

I guess the stock in this case would be your model of how the world works? ๐Ÿค”

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Jacob Rowland Tate's avatar

๐Ÿ˜‚ gravity as โ€œbalancing feedbackโ€ -such a gentle way to express the act of somebody careening off a cliff in their last moments thinking they were on to something seconds before.

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The Living Philosophy's avatar

Lovely use of the word careening ๐Ÿ˜†

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