does Destiny Exist

Originally posted by Lord Lucien
Poetic. That doesn't sound like trickery, it sounds like tenacity and endurance.

Which may require trickery at times. Over-confidence, tempered by the cold hard fact.

So raising yourself up high artificially, facing the truth of the rise, and not letting that truth bring you back down again. There has to be a proper technical term for that.

megalomania?

but dolos does have a point that belief helps people mobilize their internal resources, even if it's belief in predistination