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Have You Considered What You LOSE By Knowing the Future?
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<blockquote data-quote="temporal recon" data-source="post: 64692" data-attributes="member: 2826"><p>As would I, but my question then comes into play in that event.</p><p> </p><p><em>What experience would you <u>lose</u> by knowing your future?</em></p><p> </p><p>Imagine for a moment that you start a business, you've never worked so hard in your life. 60 hour weeks are the norm, no vacations, etc. During that time, you get a crash course in accounting, advertising, growing your business. You work for 10 years, building the business into a real success and when you're ready, you get an offer to buy your business for 4 million dollars. You accept their offer, and retire some place sunny.</p><p></p><p>But now let's pretend you met a time traveller who tells you all this ahead of time right now. You are told that if you start that business, you will work harder than you've ever worked before, 60 hour work weeks, weekends, few vacations, etc At the end of it all you will be rewarded for all this hard work with 4 million dollars. Congratulations!</p><p> </p><p>Now you have a decision to make: do you go through with this idea of self employment or not? If you do, congratulations on your successful business in 10 years. </p><p> </p><p><em>But let's pretend</em> you decide that 4 million dollars after 10 years of no life just isn't worth it. Having this foreknowledge of just how much you'll work and how much you'll earn at the end of it all has served to <strong>dissuade</strong> you from starting the business. <em>What have you <u>lost</u> in deciding to forego self employment?</em></p><p> </p><p>Well, obviously, you gain the option of choosing differently. You also lose the education in accounting, advertising, management. But you also lose the self respect of starting, building and succeeding at this business that you own. Character building.</p><p> </p><p>Granted, it is likely you would learn other things by having your life move in a different direction (with unknown results), but how does that balance with what you LOST by NOT choosing the self employment route?</p><p> </p><p>Was it worth it?</p><p> </p><p>My larger point here is that, while it might be nice to know what 's around the bend of our lives, it does not come without a cost. </p><p> </p><p>As Ever</p><p>Temporal Recon</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="temporal recon, post: 64692, member: 2826"] As would I, but my question then comes into play in that event. [I]What experience would you [U]lose[/U] by knowing your future?[/I] Imagine for a moment that you start a business, you've never worked so hard in your life. 60 hour weeks are the norm, no vacations, etc. During that time, you get a crash course in accounting, advertising, growing your business. You work for 10 years, building the business into a real success and when you're ready, you get an offer to buy your business for 4 million dollars. You accept their offer, and retire some place sunny. But now let's pretend you met a time traveller who tells you all this ahead of time right now. You are told that if you start that business, you will work harder than you've ever worked before, 60 hour work weeks, weekends, few vacations, etc At the end of it all you will be rewarded for all this hard work with 4 million dollars. Congratulations! Now you have a decision to make: do you go through with this idea of self employment or not? If you do, congratulations on your successful business in 10 years. [I]But let's pretend[/I] you decide that 4 million dollars after 10 years of no life just isn't worth it. Having this foreknowledge of just how much you'll work and how much you'll earn at the end of it all has served to [B]dissuade[/B] you from starting the business. [I]What have you [U]lost[/U] in deciding to forego self employment?[/I] Well, obviously, you gain the option of choosing differently. You also lose the education in accounting, advertising, management. But you also lose the self respect of starting, building and succeeding at this business that you own. Character building. Granted, it is likely you would learn other things by having your life move in a different direction (with unknown results), but how does that balance with what you LOST by NOT choosing the self employment route? Was it worth it? My larger point here is that, while it might be nice to know what 's around the bend of our lives, it does not come without a cost. As Ever Temporal Recon[B][/B] [/QUOTE]
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