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Ask HN: What's the single best piece of advice you've ever heard?
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#2Don't be an asshole
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#3I'll paraphrase it because I can't remember how it went. Choose some interest/activity aside from your career and commit to pursue it for the rest of your life. Such a sustained effort will one day prove to be of immense value. If you don't make your choice right now, you never will. I didn't, and I didn't, and at the age of 70 how I wish I had.
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#4Keep your. Humility on the way up. Dignity on the way down.
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#5Living well is the best revenge.
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#6Don't take any advice.
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#7Don't take advice from someone, with whom you don't want to trade places.
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#8what you want to learn has been learned before a thousand times.
never fear walking on a well-worn path.
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#9I'll paraphrase it because I can't remember how it went. Choose some interest/activity aside from your career and commit to pursue it for the rest of your life. Such a sustained effort will one day prove to be of immense value. If you don't make your choice right now, you never will. I didn't, and I didn't, and at the age of 70 how I wish I had.
Some related advice I've heard: it's never too late to start :)
No snark intended. What might you start?
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#10Learn to rest, not to quit.