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Allegedly, in 2014 Fidelity did a study of its best-performing accounts. The ones that had the best returns were those of individuals who forgot that they had accounts with Fidelity and just let the money sit there.

You Need to Know What You Are Betting On

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We didn't work on (1) time travel, (2) teleportation, and (3) antigravity. They are not important problems because we do not have an attack. It's not the consequence that makes a problem important, it is that you have a reasonable attack. That is what makes a problem important. When I say that most scientists don't work on important problems, I mean it in that sense. The average scientist, so far as I can make out, spends almost all his time working on problems which he believes will not be important and he also doesn't believe that they will lead to important problems.

You and Your Research

cs.virginia.edu

for Sartre, there is no human nature. We must always be imagining and reimagining who we are, which is to say we are always in the process of becoming. For Beauvoir, becoming was a creative enterprise, a work of art.

What Hannah Arendt Proposed as an Alternative to Authenticity | Aeon Essays

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