I think about this tweet often.

People spend their whole lives looking at the black when they should concentrate on the green.

We think a lot about those black lines, forgetting that it’s all still in our hands. pic.twitter.com/RSZ1d3W642

— Tim Urban (@waitbutwhy) March 5, 2021

Pasting the tweet here for when Twitter embeds break in the future:

Tim Urban @waitbutwhy:

We think a lot about those black lines, forgetting that it’s all still in our hands.

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