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Everything should be done with moderation.
by rokhayakebe 18y ago
Everything should be done with moderation.
- jodrellblank 18y agoSounds like a cached thought; from your presence at HN, I assume you support: Working extremely hard to compress a lifetime's earnings into a few years, e.g. from a startup. Obsessing over a small number of hobbies, e.g. coding, to get unusually good at them. The idea that people can improve themselves and their lot, and that results are linked with effort. Everything in moderation - unless you want to be particularly good at it, perhaps. [Edit: Damn, I've done it again. Voting you down because I disagree with you, even though raised a point I wanted to reply seriously to. Sorry].
- rokhayakebe 18y agoEven if you wanted to be particularly good, you should still do it with moderation. Whenever someone becomes successful we hear the same story across all industries: "started with nothing, worked 100 hours a week, etc...". Sadly enough 1 in hundreds is an exception and not a rule. What you do not hear about is how bad it is for the ones who did not moderate their input (physical, emotional, financial). Subsequently years later market crashes, housing bubbles, increase in divorces etc...make the news. What is the source of these problems? Lack of moderation.