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When I was in school my parents and teachers always warned me, "You've got to study as hard as you can while you're in school.
Otherwise when you grow up you'll regret not having studied more when you were young." But after I left school I never thought that, not even once. For me it was more regret that I hadn't done more things I enjoyed doing. Being forced to do that kind of rote memorization, I felt, wasted my life. But maybe I'm an extreme case.
Novelist as a Vocation
Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel, and Ted Goossen
One heuristic for distinguishing stuff that matters is to ask yourself whether you’ll care about it in the future. Fake stuff that matters usually has a sharp peak of seeming to matter. That’s how it tricks you. The area under the curve is small, but its shape jabs into your consciousness like a pin.
Life Is Short
paulgraham.com
“Getting old,” he writes in Becoming Myself, “is giving up one damn thing after another.”
The Existentialist Prepares to Die
Jordan Michael Smith
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