When struck by chaos and disorder, our minds set…

When struck by chaos and disorder, our minds set to work making sense of it all, deducing principles and constructing mental models, predict-ing future events and evaluating the past. This is called "learn-ing," and it makes us better; it allows us to gain from failure and disorder.

— from Takeoff Into Chaos · Everything is Fcked: A Book About Hope by Mark Manson*

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Engines already screaming, a billion other planes around you, and no one in the seat beside you who ever taught you to fly. And notice what your mind did the instant it was dropped into that disorder: it set to work making sense of it — deducing principles, building models, predicting what comes next and judging what just happened. We are wired to organize the world into tidy hierarchies precisely so it will stop frightening us. — Takeoff Into Chaos

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