Expectations

  • common myth that expectations is what leads to disappointment

  • critique of expectations as something one can have or possess — that it's not something one can have or own, that it's not external to one's grasp, but that it's something one holds in relation to their reality

  • that expectation is similar to that of the will — as what we expect is a fantasy of mastery through rationalization but expectation as that which is shaped by experience

  • maybe bring in the idea of Wittgenstein — you can't will the will