A student proposal Jiang takes seriously is that purgatorial suffering works because it is inhabited as an endless practice rather than as a finite task with a finish line.
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Finish line
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"Because even the promise of 10,000 years would not give you a growth mindset. So I think in this scene, they're just singing themselves..."
"...of the end. You can't do it as if there's a finish line. You have to just do it as if you're doing it..."
"...get the infrastructure investments they need to see this across the finish line so that the revenues can catch up, because right now there's..."
"...close, man. It's so close. We're almost there, man. It's the finish line. We've run like a 40 year marathon. And like, oh, my..."
"...might kill the entire world. But we have to cross the finish line."
"...a marathon, right? You you're, you're like so close to the finish line. You're not going to stop now. Um, uh, um, then you..."
"...And that's the, it's still the end, man. It's still the finish line. Yeah. It's still almost lab."
"...a marathon for 100 days, and now they finally see the finish line. And the finish line might be up at a steep mountain,..."
"...invested so much, 20 years, and they're so close to the finish line. And Iran is the last boss in this video game they're..."
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