Re: Emacs vista build failures

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

"Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:

> David Kastrup wrote:
>>> I think there is a good bit of psychology involved there because I
>>> believe you can not generally come to that conclusion without a
>>> certain view of how people decide what to do.
>>
>> I am not interested in applying psychology to feel comfortable with an
>> undesirable situation.  That may be fine as long as the situation can't
>> be changed.
>
> I can't understand why you are not. Don't you think it can help to
> make things better?

No, I don't think applying psychology to feel comfortable with an
undesirable situation will help to make things better.

There may be situations where temporarily scaling down the size of a
problem prevents capitulation and paralysis.  But there is a difference
between "I won't be able to finish this on my own, but I'll just start
anyway" and "I won't be able to finish this on my own, so I'll pretend
it is not worth doing".

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum