you can delay any circumstance that will bring you…
Page 20 you can delay any circumstance that will bring you face to face with your real fears, and you can avoid taking responsibility for your actions. Feeling sorry for yourself can buy time. Instead of taking action or moving forward, exaggerating how bad your situation is justify why you shouldn’t do anything to improve it.
— from The Heart in the Cockpit (Emotion/Awe/Anxiety/Regret/Empathy) · 13 things mentally strong people don’t do written by Amy Moran.
In the book
Charlie Munger gave the iron prescription: whenever you feel some person or situation is ruining your life, look again, because it is usually you who are ruining your life, and feeling like a victim is a perfectly disastrous way to travel through it. Self-pity is seductive precisely because it buys you time and takes all the pressure off — when you have a grievance against the world, you are excused from doing anything hard. The tilt of the instruments. You should know that your panel is rigged toward the negative. — The Heart in the Cockpit (Emotion/Awe/Anxiety/Regret/Empathy)