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The Importance of Living (opens the original)
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The Importance of Living, Lin Yutang (1937)“When Young, beware of fighting; when strong, beware of sex; when old, beware of possessions.” - Confucius, Page 21Timeless wisdom … Confucius lived ~500 BC.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WCm8!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%
Be a good friend (opens the original)
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A consistent theme of AO4’s over the years can be summarized as “it is not about you”.When you make it all about you, you are not a good friend.Be a good friend."people scoring highest on the measure of narcissism were at first the most popular people in the group. By the end of several months, they were the least popular. People who love themselves the most do not make the best friends."Source: Concise Introduction to Social Psychology (Elgar Concise Introductions)<sp
BYOP (opens the original)
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Bring Your Own Passion.People will tell you to follow your passion, which many interpret as figuring out how to make your hobby into your job.First, great hobbies don’t always make great jobs.Second, passion is something you can bring with you. Whatever role you are in, bring your enthusiasm & curiosity. Develop some level of competence, and relevance will follow. This might look like “passion”. You may find that you enjoy the influence that comes with persistent optimism in a given field.<a cla
Veblen good (opens the original)
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I thought this was an interesting articulation of a reality I knew existed, but didn’t understand.A Veblen good is a type of luxury good for which the demand increases as the price increases, in apparent contradiction of the law of demand, resulting in an upward-sloping demand curve. (source).If you are producing these types of goods, you need to produce more, but not so much more that the lack of scarcity becomes evident.This holds for today’s college environment. (<a href="https://theweek.com/
What is important? (opens the original)
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“Peak man” is the man who is a good husband and father.I am actually surpised 41% of men would choose “Career Success” & only 44% would choose “Getting Married and having Children”.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal"
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