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"In fact, I’m a lot more proud of these seven new bookshelves that I had to get installed to hold two thousand new books that I bought." Tai Lopez is the definition of the word humblebrag.
When did "humblebrag" become synonymous with just bragging?
worrying about success is unmitigated idiocy. everyone gets caught up in this herd mentality of wanting to have the best image on instagram and etc. when i was in college, 90 percent of the other people in the cs program were blatant zuckerberg wanna-bes. they all carried around a silent, bulging arrogance because they thought they were going to be rich. they also felt anxiety about being successful and their respons…
Amen. Take a look at Maslow’s hierarchy from time to time, and think about this success treadmill you’ve signed up for, success is nowhere in that triangle. Neither is power. What are you planning to use success and power for? Are you trying to spend your way into esteem? Belonging? Force them to respect you? Do you think self actualization requires ordering people around? Do you think if you are powerful enough that…