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latent conditioning

Instead of cursing regret, treat failure not as a toggle but as a cue. Cue to not fail the next task. One moment of failure is not indicative of a bad day, all but a moment. To raise the threshold of tolerance, try over and over again. Sequence and streaks are useless. A single number matters, attempts.

Do not summon the brute, far from it. Play for the local optima in the moment, play for the global optima every other moment. Be cunning, extremely vigilant of the plan. Be extremely naive with your heart, no shield. For you, it is the plan to tolerate everything, and resist. Not with will power, but with your sneaky paradox. Play with the sunk costs, this is a game of heart.

Long before you label yourself, remember this: the moment is only an eclipse, light will always come back. The forces of temptation always look for a crack in your guard. Nothing is monotone, and you will leak your quirks. So, the best defense is not a wall of bricks but a maze of trees. Expect the penetrating sunlight, facilitate it. Shade is always relative.

The joy from the act of failure must be replaced. This is the most powerful conditioning. Truly wired into you. To escape it via acceptance is praying a bear. So spar with the cub. One cub at a time. Indulge voluntarily, and display resolution. 100 - 95 is 10. Accumulate pride in failure, normalize it. Your armor is your play, your victory doesn’t exist, your strength is atomic, your plan is nothing yet everything.