Debugging Expectations

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

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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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