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- Fiction teaches you to value people without status
A narrator who shows you a character's trials makes you respect someone with no Bugatti, six-pack, or partner; extend that to people you rank below you and you realize you're not as low as…
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Walls crumble and empires fall... the rotting nations drop off from time's bough, and only the things the dreamers make live on.
If you keep saying I'm going to be happy when I hit this goal, you're going to be miserable your whole life.
Most men die at 30 but they're not buried till they're 80.
If you put yourself in that same lens, if someone wrote a story about you, you'd probably be a lot more empathetic towards it.
If you get addicted to self-help you're going to look at the mirror every day and realize you're not good enough.
You don't need more podcasts, you don't need more books, you don't need more strategy. What you need is compassion for yourself.
