Conclusion
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.
—Eleanor Roosevelt
Our life activities are driven by two opposite forces, which are contradictory and complementary simultaneously, like magnetic poles or electrical charges. One force is fatalism (“we are all going to die anyway”). Another is pragmatism (“we need to think about our future and plan accordingly”). Even though pragmatism better fits our basic instinct of self-preservation, I think the truth is somewhere in the middle. If all people were driven by fatalism only, there would be no progress – no technology, no social justice, etc. After all, what’s the point of doing anything if we know how it will end in advance? But on the other hand, ...