05/09/2025
What's more important, internal variables or external variables? Calling this a trick question is fair, and picking 1 over the other would be challenging to quantify = worth the time to think about.
Example: great person in a horrible situation, or horrible person in a great situation? It's interesting to consider which is most impactful, figuring. this thought speaks to nearly every positive affirmation I can think of.
Saying we, ourselves, are the only thing we have control over could be an ironic measurement bias, ironically prioritizing the easy-to-consider external thoughts of internal perception.
Paradox? Uncontrolled external variables, like an IED exploding on the road, cause uncontrolled internal variables.
Prioritizing the ease of access, "it's in your mind," is misleading and counts as an external measurement bias of internal access = just because it's your mind, doesn't mean you can access it.
Could external trauma still function as external trauma in internal thought? As in, bypassing the measurement bias of measurability, does being internal mean it's controllable?
1st assumption is "yes" but 2nd thoughts question if this is a measurement bias, now knowing, most of all, human perceptions are founded on measurement bias = assume all assumptions are skewed toward the easy conclusion, not the correct conclusion.