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Surrender as a non-stupid life strategy

Sasha Chapin · 23 Jun 2026 · sashachapin.substack.com ↗

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Every claim below was made in this piece, quoted word for word and numbered in the order the piece makes them, so you can read it there rather than take our word for it. The sentence above each quote is our reading of the claim, not their wording. Each quote was checked against a stored copy of the page at build time; where the two differ, the quote is the fact.

  1. Our reading

    The mind's planning and goal-setting function is only a small fraction of a person's overall intelligence.

    Their wordsThe planning part of your mind, the one that generates ambitions and hypothetical situations, is a small part of your overall intelligence.

  2. Our reading

    Dreading a future experience causes much of human suffering by making that imagined suffering happen now.

    Their wordsA large percentage of human suffering is anticipatory tension, or dreading a future experience such that you actualize its potential suffering in the now.

  3. Our reading

    How unhappy a person is depends on how often they believe circumstances should be different, not on the circumstances themselves.

    Their wordsUnhappiness is the product of the number of times per minute that you believe circumstances should be otherwise.