The longer your planning horizon, the less anxiety you feel now.
It sounds strange. After all, so many things can happen and get in the way!
To illustrate, let’s take two extremes:
You feel like you'll die if you don't satisfy an urgent need right now. Versus a desired goal you're willing to reach in five or even ten years.
In the first case, your anxiety will be through the roof. You will suffer. You will abandon your principles. You will lie. You will justify violence.
In the case of a long-term goal, you will calmly study any obstacle that appears in your path. What is there to worry about? Even in its most negative form, you will have time to discover valuable meaning within it. Or it might reveal itself on its own.
But wait, what about economic crises, pandemics, revolutions, wars, AI, and all the other tectonic shifts? It seems Chaos has made it its mission to astonish people with its ability to create the unexpected.
And what is that to you?
You have the most powerful ally imaginable on your side: Time. It relentlessly grinds down, dissolves, and transforms absolutely everything.
The takeaway? Look far, far ahead into your desired future.
Sincerely yours,
-Alexander
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