Admiral Jim Stockdale, tortured in Vietnam for 8 years, on what got him through the hardest times: I never lost faith in the end of the story. I never doubted not only that I would get out, but also that I would prevail in the end and turn the experience into the defining event of…more
Because we don’t want to change our behavior: In general, people use experts all the time, and most of us don’t spend a lot of time second-guessing experts on most issues…The big exception [is when] we reject scientific findings because we don’t like their implications.
> Things are too good for us to change it all, yet too bad for us to leave anything as it is. This is the great paradox of modern times. – [Rob Wijnberg](https://thecorrespondent.com/104/the-great-paradox-of-our-time-everything-is-both-better-and-worse-than-ever-before/13498193280-8b5fffd7)