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Debugging Expectations.

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Why? So they can be met!

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Can avoid disappointment and hard feelings.

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Can change future and past experiences.

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What’s an expectation?

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ex spectare [lat.] to look out

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A belief centered on the future regarding an assumed outcome.

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The most likely to happen.

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Expectation met? Happy!

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Not met? Unhappy.

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

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…the fallacy of contradiction.

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What’s a contradiction?

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$a !== $a

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Something is not what it is?

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A contradiction is something that cannot and does not exist.

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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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Expectation 
 not met. ‚

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Expectation 
 not met. ‚ Default:

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Expectation 
 not met. ‚ - deny Default:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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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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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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Debugging in detail:

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Accept. This is not as expected.

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Understand. Why is it the way it is?

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

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Move on. Assume possible false premises, check early.

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Keep energy flowing. Remember next time when feeling disappointed.

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Be happy. Create an expectation that is likely to be met. 
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Debugging expectations can help validating your own premises, make smarter premises and come up with expectations likely to be met.

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Thanks!

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Caspar Hübinger @glueckpress