To create optimistic humans.

Optimism here is not a mood. Churchill was depressive and an optimist about civilization; Malthus was cheerful and predicted doom. Optimism is a stance toward failure. An optimistic human meets a problem never as fate, character, or a verdict already passed on them, but as something that can be solved, and a better future once it is.

David Deutsch's principle: all evils are caused by insufficient knowledge. A problem persists because something is not yet known. Nothing about you forbids solving it.

Static humans have two blindnesses, blind pessimism and blind optimism. The first claims you are safe if you don't examine the unknown. The second expects rules to stop firing by decree instead of by error correction. Both claim to know the unknowable. Between them sits the loop that keeps a problem the same for a decade: if you do not expect to grow, keeping the devil you know is the smart move, and while you keep it you cannot grow. What breaks the loop is expecting that self-knowledge can be created. That expectation is optimism. The practice trains it.

Most attempts at change ask the wrong question: which new rule should run my life? A new diet, a new system, a new self starting Monday. Karl Popper found the better question: how do you remove a bad rule without violence? Violence, turned inward, means willpower as punishment: shame, suppression, one part of you crushing another. The sessions are built for the peaceful version. A rule gets a hearing, its explanation is examined, and a rule whose explanation fails steps down on its own. Kept up, this changes what you struggle with: your problems change instead of repeating. And a problem that has lasted ten years is hard, not hopeless. Hard means it needs knowledge you have not created yet. Hard problems get solved all the time.

The stakes are personal. The worst thing a person can lose is the belief that their problems can be solved; losing it is how a hard decade becomes a permanent one. The repair is personal too. Your problems live in your life and nowhere else, so no template can solve them. A book can teach the method. Only your own explanations, examined one by one, can change you. Epipsy works one human at a time.