So how best to handle expectations?

So how best to handle expectations? I recommend orga nizing your thoughts like an emergency doctor during triage. Constantly distinguish between "I have to have it," "I want to have it" and "I expect it."

— from The Instruments (Awareness/Perception/Expectations)

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Set expectations you can survive being wrong about. Begin by being mindful that you even have expectations, which most people never notice; then deliberately temper them, the way a good investor enters a position seeing things as they are rather than as he hopes. Organize your expectations before a hard meeting the way an emergency doctor triages — most likely case, worst case, what you'll do either way. And take Epictetus's harder counsel when you can: do not demand that things happen as you wish, but wish for them to happen as they do. — The Instruments (Awareness/Perception/Expectations)

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