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Debugging Expectations

Caspar Hübinger
June 07, 2015
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Debugging Expectations

Optimize your experience of reality by debugging false premises, eliminate contradictions and create expectations likely to be met.

Caspar Hübinger

June 07, 2015
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  1. Debugging
    Expectations.

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  2. Why?
    So they can be met!

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  3. Can avoid
    disappointment and
    hard feelings.

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  4. Can change future
    and past
    experiences.

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  5. What’s an
    expectation?

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  6. ex spectare [lat.]
    to look out

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  7. A belief centered
    on the future
    regarding an assumed
    outcome.

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  8. The most likely to
    happen.

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  9. Expectation met?
    Happy!

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  10. Not met?
    Unhappy.

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  11. What really happens
    when we feel unhappy, disappointed or
    irritated about an expectation not met
    is we’re experiencing…

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  12. …the fallacy of
    contradiction.

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  13. What’s a
    contradiction?

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  14. $a !== $a

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  15. Something
    is not
    what it is?

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  16. A contradiction is
    something that cannot
    and does not exist.

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  17. Contradictions are usually created
    in our minds when we as humans fail
    to accept a universal event as
    real and therefore
    true.

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  18. Expectation 

    not met. ‚

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  19. Expectation 

    not met. ‚
    Default:

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  20. Expectation 

    not met. ‚
    - deny
    Default:

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  21. Expectation 

    not met. ‚
    - deny
    - perceived contradiction
    Default:

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  22. Expectation 

    not met. ‚
    - deny
    - perceived contradiction
    - emote
    Default:

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  23. Expectation 

    not met. ‚
    - deny
    - perceived contradiction
    - emote
    - get stuck
    Default:

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  24. Expectation 

    not met. ‚
    - deny
    - perceived contradiction
    - emote
    - get stuck
    - get others stuck
    Default:

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  25. Expectation 

    not met. ‚
    - deny
    - perceived contradiction
    - emote
    - get stuck
    - get others stuck
    - be unhappy
    Default:

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  26. Expectation 

    not met. ‚
    - deny
    - perceived contradiction
    - emote
    - get stuck
    - get others stuck
    - be unhappy
    Debug:
    Default:

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  27. Expectation 

    not met. ‚
    - deny
    - perceived contradiction
    - emote
    - get stuck
    - get others stuck
    - be unhappy
    - accept (choice!)
    Debug:
    Default:

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  28. Expectation 

    not met. ‚
    - deny
    - perceived contradiction
    - emote
    - get stuck
    - get others stuck
    - be unhappy
    - accept (choice!)
    - understand
    Debug:
    Default:

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  29. Expectation 

    not met. ‚
    - deny
    - perceived contradiction
    - emote
    - get stuck
    - get others stuck
    - be unhappy
    - accept (choice!)
    - understand
    - learn
    Debug:
    Default:

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  30. Expectation 

    not met. ‚
    - deny
    - perceived contradiction
    - emote
    - get stuck
    - get others stuck
    - be unhappy
    - accept (choice!)
    - understand
    - learn
    - move on
    Debug:
    Default:

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  31. Expectation 

    not met. ‚
    - deny
    - perceived contradiction
    - emote
    - get stuck
    - get others stuck
    - be unhappy
    - accept (choice!)
    - understand
    - learn
    - move on
    - keep energy flowing
    Debug:
    Default:

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  32. Expectation 

    not met. ‚
    - deny
    - perceived contradiction
    - emote
    - get stuck
    - get others stuck
    - be unhappy
    - accept (choice!)
    - understand
    - learn
    - move on
    - keep energy flowing
    - be happy
    Debug:
    Default:

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  33. Debugging
    in detail:

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  34. Accept.
    This is not as expected.

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  35. Understand.
    Why is it the way it is?

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  36. Learn.
    What premise(s) was the
    expectation based upon?

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  37. Move on.
    Assume possible false
    premises, check early.

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  38. Keep energy flowing.
    Remember next time when
    feeling disappointed.

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  39. Be happy.
    Create an expectation that is
    likely to be met. 


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  40. Debugging
    expectations
    can help validating your own premises,
    make smarter premises
    and come up with expectations
    likely to be met.

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  41. Thanks!

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  42. Caspar Hübinger
    @glueckpress

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