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VIDEO EXCERPTS: You know who has said this: If we take man as he is, we make him worse. But if we take man as he should be, we make him capable of becoming what he can be.

[...] If we seem to be idealist and are overestimating, overrating man, and looking at him that high -- here above, you know what happens. We promote him to what he really can be.

So we have to be idealist in a way, because then we wind up at the true or the real realist [orientation].

Viktor Frankl on "Why the idealists are the real realists"

I always give strangers the benefit of the doubt, taking them to be friendly and basically good. Though there are times when this isn't true, the pretending it is true is a more practical and streamlined way of human interaction. Rudeness and drama just wastes valuable energy and time and consumes thought better spent on something else.