Advice is about those dark-night-of-the-soul times: that the way a desperate person looks at his downside affects what if anything he does in that moment about the situation. Determination, when you are weak, focuses what resources you do have on doing something. That focus or attitude or way you characterize (within your own heart) a terrible fix, either bypasses the despair that brings on paralysis or invites it.

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