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Amor Fati
Love of Fate
Amor Fati is Latin for “love of fate”. It is an attitude of acceptance of the events or situations that occur in one’s life.
This acceptance does not preclude an attempt at change or improvement the situation but to accept circumstances with a sense of contentment.
Practicing Amor Fati helps release us from being dragged down by our past and frees us to make the most of our future.
Amor Fati is a better lens through which to view the world.
Thinks of Hanlon’s Razor as a special case of Amor Fati.
Hanlon’s razor is an aphorism expressed in various ways, including:
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
It helps us keep our cool by providing a disinterested approach to eliminating unlikely explanations for human behavior and its consequences.
We tend to immediatly jump to the conclusion that we have been maliciously slighted in interaction where in many cases…
