I’ve noticed that things I feel optimistic about tend to turn out to be failures, but when I’m pessimistic about things they turn out great.
So lately I’ve been going into situations assuming the worst, and low and behold things have been coming out better. I interviewed for a job recently, and was really pessimistic about getting it, and I start later this week. I had to help my sister move cross country last month and assumed it’d be a disaster, but it went off almost perfectly.
Turns out the universe is contrarian and will do the opposite of whatever you expect. So if anything us Communists should be MORE Doomer, since it will manifest the revolution happening. It’s reverse Infra-Materialism
In my experience it’s simply your perception of things that change. An unexpected failure is worse than a failure you prepared for. An unexpected win feels better than a guaranteed one. If you don’t get your hopes up, you react to both successes and failures better.
Idk, the improvements seem material. Also something bad happened this week right as I was starting to get optimistic about things.