The general principle of antifragility: it is much better to do things you cannot explain than explain things you cannot do. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"You can almost always find flaws in a research paper, (partic. social science). So if you only publish papers that are flawed AND politically correct & remove those that are flawed BUT not politically correct, science becomes a political enterprise, that is, propaganda. " -

For life to be really fun, what you fear should line up with what you desire.

good news is good news first; how good matters rather little. So to have a pleasant life you should spread these small “affects” across time as evenly as possible. Plenty of mildly good news is preferable to one single lump of great news.