You have to recognize that the world is an…

You have to recognize that the world is an unpredictable place.

— from The Instruments (Awareness/Perception/Expectations)

In the book

But a pilot who learns to read his own gauges — who sets expectations he can survive being wrong about, and holds every reading humbly — flies the same sky as everyone else and is ambushed by almost none of it. The first move toward that calm is the humblest one: simply to accept, in advance, that the world is an unpredictable place, so its surprises stop registering as betrayals and start registering as mere weather. So here is how to fly by your instruments rather than by the seat of your pants. — The Instruments (Awareness/Perception/Expectations)

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