“After all, who doesn’t want to be the hero of their own story?”
So this is what is wrong with that statement – Hasty Generalization Fallacy!
A hasty generalization occurs when someone generalizes an experience from examples, not evidence. Also known as hasty induction or overextension, it is a form of jumping to a conclusion. It’s easy for anyone to do, especially if you’re not fully informed, but it can be harmful and misleading.
Not everyone’s aspiration is to be the person who “did it” for themselves, in their lives, in their career, in their personal agenda, and all and all. Honestly, I would rather have myself up on a couch and be fixed up by a different person other than myself.
Let my car run when I start the ignition, and don’t make me check if the radiator has any water left. Let the gas in my cooker still be alive when I try to make a meal. Let me come home to a ready-made bed with puffy pillows….
Some days, I get angry at my washing machine, for no absolute reason other than its technology being part-way, not 100 percent, not AI, not robotic as I would wish. I want ease in every aspect – good enough the washing machine takes away the stress to wash, but not all of the laundry stressful process. I still have to manually fill the machine tub, and monitor the process.
When the washing is done, I will have to manually take all the clothes out, and set them right. Because I do not have a dryer, that means I still have to get all those clothes to the drying line. And then another monitoring, before I get them back into my room fully dried. I will have to organize them in my wardrobe before I can fully say the laundry process is completed.
Back in the days of pre- washing machine era, during laundry days (every two weeks), I had a laundry man. Without any sorting, I stuff all my dirty clothes, including bedspread, pillowcases, and towels, in huge shopping bags about 3 or 4. The laundry man takes them away and delivers them in 3 – 5 days dry cleaned, ironed, and sealed in nylons. I don’t even have to undo any. I pick them off as arranged when I need to wear any out.
So what do all these mean?
I don’t necessarily wish to be the hero in my story. If I am, then that’s fine. If I’m not, I will not work towards it like a mission.
Not everyone wants to be the hero of their own story. I’m fine, you can take the medal.
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There are certain tasks or roles that I find quite difficult to delegate to man or machine. This is due in part to the phobia of not handling it as I would.
Yes, I could teach some persons or model structures on how to do it like me but what I fear most is their resolve and will to carry out that task with every discipline as I would and be in sync with the motivation within me every time.
For context: If I found the cure for hunger, I want to be the hero in that process.