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Lessons I'm learning: Social protocol has a real impact on people. The quality of your reasoning doesn't provide you an excuse to ignore it. It is incredibly
by aaronblohowiak 16y ago
Lessons I'm learning:
Social protocol has a real impact on people. The quality of your reasoning doesn't provide you an excuse to ignore it.
It is incredibly easy to blow thousands of dollars, $20 at a time.
Smile.
Reserve judgement until judgement is required.
Helping people is more satisfying than helping yourself. This is true because you can feel like you've helped others enough, but you will always want more for yourself. ;)
Ambition isn't talent. Ambition isn't a moral quality.
Be prepared.
There is no substitute for good sleeping habits. Really.
Complex, irrational arguments and behavior are often explained by simple emotional factors.
- chronomex 16y agoIt is incredibly easy to blow thousands of dollars, $20 at a time. I'm only 22 and I already learned that the hard way. Spend less than you earn.
- kleevr 16y agoI couldn't find the original quote, but if I can paraphrase it: Spend two pence less than you make and you'll be content, maybe even happy. Spend two pence more than you make and you'll be miserable.
- whatusername 16y agoWilkins Micawber -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilkins_Micawber http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilkins_Micawber (A character in Charles Dickens' novel David Copperfield) "Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery."
- alttab 16y agoComplex, irrational arguments and behavior are often explained by simple emotional factors. Understanding this, and you will understand a lot. In almost all quibbles, addressing what you've rooted up as the deep emotional reaction to whatever surface thing you talk about and watch the other person's reaction change immediately.