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We all go through life with problems.
Living a nice, healthy life is not about solving problems until there are no more problems.
That's impossible.
It's about having strategies to resolve our problems so that we have the mental and emotional bandwidth to deal with new problems as they come along.
A really terrible strategy for resolving our old problems is to not deal with them, to just keep rehearsing them in our heads.
We get fixated on reminding ourselves what the problem is and forget.
The point is defining the problem so that we can resolve it, not just torture ourselves excessively.
One of the things a good therapist can do is help flip the dynamic around to shake us out of our habit of wasting so much time rehashing our problems and instead use that time to focus on solving them.
Because mostly we don't even realize we're doing this.
Therapy works because it gives us a broader perspective to see the bigger picture and work towards overcoming and solving and disentangling ourselves from our problems rather than just sitting with them forever.
When you want to be a better problem solver, therapy can get you there.
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Appendix seven the entropy of victory last week we ended with victory for the revolution and defeat for the now former sovereign.
This was the moment when one of our great idiots of history stepped forward and managed to screw things up so badly that despite every material, political, social, and ideological advantage, still managed to get overthrown.
I mean, you have to be pretty incompetent to allow this to happen.
And yet, here we are.
It came down to that final test of strength.
The regime failed it and was transformed by the mystical trifecta of loss of faith, loss of trust, and loss of will from a regime into an ancien regime.