Life Lessons I’ve Learned in 38 Years
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Life Lessons I’ve Learned in 38 Years
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#3Q: How do you know if there's a vegetarian in the room?
A: Don't worry, they'll let you know!
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#4tl;dr be a liberal buddhist vegan
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#5This is gold... "The only kind of marketing you need is an amazing product. If it’s good, people will spread the word for you. All other kind of marketing is disingenuous."
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#639: You will die, and you do not know when. When you start to truly accept this you will go about your life with little fear. Change friends, Pick up an old book, choose a new career path, move to another state or country, ask for a raise, and more importantly know there isn't the "only one for me", there are many of them.
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#7This is gold... "The only kind of marketing you need is an amazing product. If it’s good, people will spread the word for you. All other kind of marketing is disingenuous."
Its true in its essence, but the author skipped out a lot of details in marketing. You would never hear about many great products unless it was promoted by "disingenuous" marketing.
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#8"Failures are the stepping stones to success. Without failure, we’ll never learn how to succeed. So try to fail, instead of trying to avoid failure through fear."
I don't know how this one has hung around for so long (seems like a cultural cornerstone of valiance), but I find it just plain wrong. The first part of it (stepping stones) is reasonable, but the second part is doing a great disservice for those struggling every day to try and achieve their form of success.
Suggesting and encouraging failure is not the same as embracing and supporting it when it happens, and the author seems to be conflating the two.
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#9"Failures are the stepping stones to success. Without failure, we’ll never learn how to succeed. So try to fail, instead of trying to avoid failure through fear." I don't know how this one has hung around for so long (seems like a cultural cornerstone of valiance), but I find it just plain wrong. The first part of it (stepping stones) is reasonable, but the second part is doing a great disservice for those struggling…
I didn't interpret it that way when I read it - perhaps it could be worded better.
I read it to mean that you should not avoid trying to do something because you might fail - you should accept that you might fail and go for it anyway - not an encouragement to actively sabotage yourself and fail. Doing something you KNOW will fail is just stupid.
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#10This is gold... "The only kind of marketing you need is an amazing product. If it’s good, people will spread the word for you. All other kind of marketing is disingenuous."
Its true in its essence, but the author skipped out a lot of details in marketing. You would never hear about many great products unless it was promoted by "disingenuous" marketing.
The author skipped about his working hard to promote his blog, mainly using the guest posts for other blogs.