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Well what makes growing more interesting than not growing?


Surely the opportunity to experience more is more interesting than the one which has you firmly planted where you are?


to experience more is more interesting

It depends. In some ways by choosing what NOT to do, you are choosing what to do and have more time, effort and money to invest in them as a result of being conservative with your resources.

Perhaps the Exclusionist Mindset?


Sure, you'll have to exclude things by necessity, but what I was getting at was rather the not doing things because one believes it is actually impossible, while still actually wanting to do that thing for some reason (desire).


The alternative is the pursuit of pleasure, because why not enjoy it rather than suffer if you're just going to die?


I guess so but as a human you will naturally seek new experiences. I don't see why you need to adopt a growth mindset to try to expedite what already happens.

Even if a growth mindset leads you to double the amount of experiences, on a logarithmic scale that is inconsequential.


I agree, a "grow mindset" cannot be coerced. You can't believe you can grow when you really believe you are fixed. Perhaps all you can do is add "at this point in time" at the end of all your sentences, and hope for the best.

I’m one of the people who’s not good at math at this point in time.


It replaces suffering with relief.




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