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Page 33 each time you choose to trust yourself and take action, you can never quite be certain how the situation will turn out. Sometimes you are victorious, and sometimes you become disillusioned. The failed experiments, however, are no less valuable than the experiments that are that ultimately proved successful.

— from Takeoff Into Chaos · If life is a game these are the rules by Carter-Scott

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Epictetus reduced it to a kind of serenity formula: do not demand that things happen as you wish, but wish for them to happen as they do, and you will fly calm. Each time you choose to trust yourself and act, you can never be certain how it will turn out — sometimes you are vindicated, sometimes disillusioned — and you take off anyway. Then the steps: — Takeoff Into Chaos

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