The pursuit for 'greater things' can be vexing if we forget to count our blessings before chasing more, because without gratitude, ambition turns into a restless race, leaving us blind to the good already in our hands.
Judgment...what is worth doing, what is true, what matters, and what should be rejected.
I've come to treat AI with great suspicion in making major decisions. AI lack experiential context that happens to be key in human judgment.
Hope is a form of religiosity, hope is an act of faith. But more than that, hope makes today worth living: hope that sickness will pass, loved ones will return, and that tomorrow holds beautiful things we cannot yet see.
Getting married is risky, having children is risky, getting into business is risky, investing your money is risky, to tell you how risky your life is, YOU'RE NOT GONNA GET OUT ALIVE.
Take the risk
~Jim Rohn
But even for the confessed staunch metaphysical materialists, it takes more FAITH, to hold the proposition that, matter and nothing beyond it... after hearing this...
As you get older, you start understanding your parents. Then you begin developing more nuanced, balanced opinions about life, relatives, friends, and the world. Wisdom is that boring.