After spending another day talking about the “most advantageous advantage” I have changed my perspective slightly since yesterday’s post. I no longer believe that Dostoyevsky refers to fun or adrenaline rush directly as he speaks about this advantage. He is referring to something a bit larger than that. He is talking about failure. According to Dostoyevsky, humanity’s most advantageous advantage is our ability to set ourselves up for failure and our ability to choose to take unnecessary risks in our lives. Why? I believe that in his eyes, life would be extremely dull and quite boring if people did everything logically according to the laws of nature. There would be no excitement, no ingenuity, and more importantly, no development. Risks are necessary for innovation and discovery, that is what separates humanity from the rest of the animals that inhabit this planet. Our ability to take risks, fail, and try again, is what distinguishes us and makes us the dominators of this planet.
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