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Lower Your Expectations If You Want Love – Bo Burnham

by eternaldarkness
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So another poster had posted a Bo Burnham song, which led me to click on other videos.  Thought this was quite an interesting song.  What do you think?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n450GmN2Yfk

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Dead Flowers 3/16/2017 - 4:00 pm

I posted the “Kill Yourself” one. Somehow I broke wordpress.

eternaldarkness 3/16/2017 - 10:12 pm

lol you killed wordpress, spreading death…

hm, imagine you had that power, the touch of death (assume you can control it at will). THAT would be some kind of power…

Morris 3/16/2017 - 9:56 pm

Lowering your expectations is a great way to avoid disappointment. People with high expectations often fail, and this makes them feel like losers.
If you expect nothing and nothing happens, then you won’t feel like a loser. 🙂
^ (That slogan would work well in a fortune cookie at The Slacker Chinese Restaurant).

nepheliad 3/16/2017 - 10:14 pm

People who realize that there is no real plateau in life, and that everything is a continual process that doesn’t end until you’re dead… they won’t feel like “losers” because they know they just need to create new goals to strive towards.

Small realistic goals are usually achievable, it’s more of a problem when people are fed the “follow your dreams” line and then they might build up high hopes that don’t pan out. (Like a kid being told he can be a pilot if that’s what he truly wants, and then being turned down from flight school because his eyesight isn’t good enough.)

Night In Atlantis 3/16/2017 - 11:21 pm

Expectation can influence motivation and contentment positively or negatively.

While lowering expectation can avoid disappointment it can also create it.

I think the point can be made case by case, reflecting on risk of failure vs. empowerment of success and motivation to set new goals. Risk and reward. Also, immediate positive outcomes may or may not be conducive to future contentment.

In the case of “love” there can be either positive or negative outcomes in lowering expectations depending on where compromises are made.
So while we might seemingly succeed by lowing expectation, if we compromise in the wrong area love may not be attained without risk.

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