The Stockdale Paradox is one of my favorite ideas. You can be honest about how hard something is and still believe there’s a way through it. That’s the kind of optimism I want in my stories—and in life.

#StockdaleParadox #Psychology #WritingCommunity #AuthorLife #RealisticOptimism

Largely the same folks who insisted all the polls were wrong and there was going to be a huge blue wave (and people with polling data were evil actors paid to hide this from everyone). These people are on the downside of the #StockdaleParadox

The #StockdaleParadox
#AdmiralJamesStockdale

His plane was shot down
over North Vietnam. He ejected & parachuted into enemy territory, was captured & imprisoned for 7 years in the “Hanoi Hilton” POW camp.
Just stumbled upon the paradox named for him.

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In March, I wrote about the #StockdaleParadox + #COVID quoting "They’d say, ‘We’re going to be out by Easter.’ And Easter would come, and Easter would go. And then Thanksgiving, and then it would be Christmas."

And here we are....