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GrandConjuraton posted...

Honestly? You can label me what ever way that you wish to, and I can't take that away from you.

However... I have a pretty reasonable estimation of my own skills and abilities, and I know that if I have reason to think I can do something, I can get the work in to get it done. If I don't think I can get it done, then I see no value in persisting anyway no matter what the (theoretical) benefit might be. In terms of what we've been talking about, my estimation falls on the short side in regards to myself. I base my estimations on past successes and failures, and I have had nothing but failure for these things, and so I have no basis for expecting anything else.

Your "reasonable estimation" is born of a perception clouded by self-loathing and despairing depression, not logic.

You act like this isn't the exact same thought process I used to have. I've failed more than enough times in my life to at least be in the same ballpark as you, if not more due to trying to solve more than one main issue at once. If I used all that failure as a way to try and predict the future, then I'd have given up and ended things by now, but I came to my senses and realized that I am a human being, not a scientific equation. And as a human being, my future (and yours, as another human) is better described in similar terms to quantum mechanics rather than classical physics.

In other words, previous results have little to no bearing on future results. No one, not even the individual in question, will ever be able to accurately predict the outcome of their own endeavors, regardless of how well they know themselves.