We'd be much better off if somehow kids grew up with this message drilled into them. I'm so bad about this kind of paralysis. Even just playing video games, I get upset with myself if I fail to optimize something and it ends up sucking the joy out of the experience.

Oddly enough, I'm not really like this when it comes to bitcoin. Since I believe bitcoin adoption will achieve large social changes that I want, I'm happy to try stuff and take some losses here and there, because I know the activity and the experiments are how this gets accomplished.