we move through life expecting things to go well…

Page 132 keyword goal we move through life expecting things to go well so when something does go well we don't feel we need to explain why but if there's a failure then we tend to elaborate and try to make sense of it. This tendency to explain negative outcomes of a parent and every day semantics. Good milk is not called good milk, it's called milk. In contrast, milk that has gone bad is referred to as spoiled milk. Because negative experience is called for precise explanations, many languages contain more words to describe negative emotions than positive ones.

— from The Instruments (Awareness/Perception/Expectations) · Get it done by ayelot fishbach

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