17514 - Why you will NEVER keep up with the Joneses

“The true self is what you have built from your nature, not just what your nature started out with”: David Brooks The Road To Character Your true or authentic self is not a static persona that sleeps ...

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Days Left On Earth: 17492“Never be that drunk guy at the end of the bar who says I coulda made it if it weren’t for the…” My dad.Have you heard someone say, or have you said, something similar?“I coul...

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Days Left On Earth: 17493“I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference.” Ro...

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Days Left On Earth: 17494A few years ago I was given this advice by someone I admired greatly, "Don't try to be someone you're not'. This well-intended advice was both totally WRONG and RIGHT.The pers...

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Days Left On Earth: 17495In the classic Robin Williams film, Dead Poets Society, where he plays the unorthodox teacher John Keating, he tells the boys to look at pictures of long past pupils and says,...

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Days Left On Earth: 17496“You are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else, you were born into bondage, into a prison that you cannot taste, see or touch - a prison for your mind.” Morpheus then offers Neo (K...

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Days Left On Earth: 17497Bede, known as the father of history, wrote:“The sparrow, I say, flying in at one door and immediately out the another, whilst he is within, is safe from the wintry storm; but...

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Days Left On Earth: 17498Almost all our instincts favour the short term. The short term is easy. It's easy to eat the cake, it's hard to resist it. It's easy to drink, it's hard not to.It’s easy to be...

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