Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.
High among the unpredictable variables that endanger the survival of worthy buildings are the vagaries of taste.
Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.
The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
The danger with playing a part that defines you is that it swallows up everything else.
Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.
The scarcity trap captures this notion we see again and again in many domains. When people have very little, they undertake behaviors that maintain or reinforce their future disadvantage. If you have very little, you often behave in such a way so that you'll have little in the future.
Consequently it will often happen there will be a desire of particular objects, in cases where they cannot be obtained without manifest injury to others.
Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.
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