Sour Grapes: How to tell growth from surrender
How to tell growth from surrender.
There's a person you used to want to be. At some point you stopped wanting it, and it felt like maturity. How would you know if that were false?
You stopped wanting something you couldn't have, and it felt like growing up. From the inside, growing out of a want and giving up on one feel identical. This episode is about whether you could ever tell the difference.
The concept is adaptive preference: a desire that adjusts itself to what's available and then covers its tracks. It starts as a fable about a fox and ends as a problem for anyone who thinks asking…
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