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submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/showerthoughts
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The two most important questions of our time are:

Who do we want to be?

How do we get there?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Questions that are all encompassing like these are worthless because they don't get us any closer to the answer.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not asking these questions doesn't get us any closer to the answer either though?

[–] No1 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If two things lead to the same result (in this example, neither asking the questions nor not asking the questions get us closer to the answer), then isn't the lesser effort option optimal?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I just don't agree that it "doesn't help".

It does help, at least it helped me.