Denial.

I want to make millions of dollars when I don’t even get the H1B visa; that’s an example of a denial.

Usually, denial comes from delusional people. By delusional, it means they cannot accept reality.

There are a bunch of reasons why people cannot accept reality. One of them is that their reality is quite dim. Obviously, they don’t want to accept it. Another is that there’s an injustice. Sometimes, people have put in all their efforts, but still they face hurdles. Then it becomes difficult to accept the failure and to accept the reality that there are no results. Another is some kind of wrong upbringing, where someone else has been fulfilling your needs, then suddenly you assume that you will be able to fulfill your needs as well. And that doesn’t happen.

Men, women, and even countries can be in denial.

To make progress in life, you need to put more efforts to get less results, usually.

Which means, keep on trying and one day, your efforts may be enough to get the results that you wanted.

Or, you can change the expectations as well, like I want to make 200k dollars instead of millions of dollars. Then that might become achievable. And people won’t call you delusional.

So, changing your efforts or changing your expectations are two things that you can do to come out of any denial.

Countries have a different problem, though. They have different ways to reach a consensus on what should be the change. Should the change be in efforts, or should the change be in expectations?

I think changing the expectations is a better way for countries to deal with it. Because countries are big. And you cannot change the efforts so easily. More efforts will need more funding, more manpower, and more hard work. Not all these factors may come in sync immediately.