Should I ever have kids -- and I'd like to! -- this would be the only thing in raising them that I wouldn't teach them like my parents taught me: failing is OK. There is always a way to continue and failing just means discovering a "way that didn't work".
My happiness and that of the people around me are the real concerns, everything else I do is just serving those goals.
My happiness and that of the people around me are the real concerns, everything else I do is just serving those goals.
Life is just another optimization problem.