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Some time back, I said,

“Remember to have hope, but also remember—losing it will do you no harm.”

It is not because those with hope and those hopeless face the same exact fate. The extent of our hope, or our hopelessness, predisposes us towards certain outcomes over others. The crux of the matter lies in the fact that in either case we fail again and again to reliably predict the outcomes, let alone judge whether those outcomes are good or bad.