Life
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2020 rhymes with 2008 and 2009
History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme. Mark Twain I’ve been listening to Harvard Business Review IdeaCast podcast since early this year, and I decided to begin with their first episode, which aired in 2006. After hours and hours of interrupted playback and juggling in-between podcasts, I thought I accidentally played 2020 the moment Read more
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It’s not all about you
When we were children, we look forward to life, thinking about the possibilities ahead of us. We believe we could be this or that. It’s all about what we could become. But now that I am in my early adulthood, I realized that life is not “all about you.” Maturity begins when you start to Read more
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Arguments and labeling
People who have good arguments use them. People who do not have good arguments try to win by labeling. Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America Read more
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Predicting the future and fraud
Now let’s say you had experience in economics and business, as I do. In those domains, anyone telling you they can predict the future in ten years with their complicated multivariate models is automatically considered fraud. Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America Read more
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Waste a life
It’s easy. Do not make any plans. The moment you wake up, get your phone, and open your most used social media account. Is it Facebook? Instagram? TikTok? Do nothing but just scroll. Find the right angle for your post. Repeat. Some begin their day watching anything on Netflix. Or a movie series until 3 Read more
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