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An old boss once warned: “You’ll never be rich since you’re obviously smart, and someone will always offer you a job that’s just good enough.”
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
Eric Jorgenson
Counselling and childhood education are essentially the same.
The Courage to Be Happy
Ichiro Kishimi
Nature’s answer is a lot of good enough, below-potential traits across all species. Biologist Anthony Bradshaw says that evolution’s successes get all the attention, but its failures are equally important. And that’s how it should be: Not maximizing your potential is actually the sweet spot in a world where perfecting one skill compromises another.
Evolution has spent 3.8 billion years testing and proving the idea that some inefficiency is good.
We know it’s right.
So maybe we should pay more attention to it.
Same as Ever
Morgan Housel
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