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Ask HN: What is something that had the largest positive impact on your life?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would heed his prophecy rather than dismiss it per ad hominem, because it's an extremely common fate for many a man. If you believe you're special, that you're immunized from such a fate, you'll let your guard down, and when you get hit with your guard down, the hit comes harder.

Why even worry about this in advance?

The point is to not give up what makes you, you for another person, regardless how invested you are in them. And don't feel obligated to take on their hobbies, etc.

Re: Ask HN: What is something that had the largest positive impact on your life?

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Religion. I want to ride off the top comment here, but I have a slightly different take on it. I think what matters is having a core, something you accept as absolute truth. Make new assumptions around this truth. What happens when science conflicts with your truth? You abandon the lower truth and follow the higher truth. Abandon lower truths for higher ones, like a bubble sort. Is scientific evidence the highest tru…

Nothing can ever make losing a child 'fine'. You must not have children.

I have 3.
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