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Are Social Media Influencers Just Bullshit?

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“Time isn’t something you can fight. You can’t stop it from moving forward. You can’t undo what has been done. You can only decide what to do next, in the time you have left.”

— Allison DuBois, Medium

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“We all lie to ourselves. Whether we’re convincing ourselves that something is or isn’t true, self-deception is a common psychological tactic—so common, in fact, that people can be unaware they’re even doing it.

But why do we do it? Research defines self-deception as an independent mental state made up of conscious and unconscious memories and attitudes, as well as controlled and automatic processes, that serves as an attempt at self-protection or enhancement.”

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“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”

— Theodore Roosevelt
Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910

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“The rich exploit the poor and drive them to become more poverty-stricken, while their own affluence grows.”

— George Orwell

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“All that jealousy and envy comin’ from my enemies.”

— Tupac Shakur

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donotdestroy:

“There are a number of theories on the reasons why people experience jealousy. Whether it’s over what other people have that we don’t or have accomplished by means of resources, privilege, opportunity, or hard work, it seems like jealousy has always been a part of being human. One theory is that jealousy was how our early ancestors defended themselves from infidelity, according to evolutionary psychology. Today, we’ve taken theory and applied it to more rigorous scientific study.”

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“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it, we go nowhere.”

— Carl Sagan

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A USEFUL LIFE IS A GOOD LIFE, A LIFE WORTH HAVING LIVED
“Try to live a useful life. Do things that are useful to your fellow human beings, to the world.  It’s very hard to be useful, very hard.  Are you contributing more than you consume? Can you try to have a positive net contribution to society? I think that’s the thing to aim for. Not to try to be a leader for the sake of being a leader.  If you live a useful life, that is a good life, a life worth having lived.”

— Elon Musk

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“When I founded WikiLeaks, it was driven by a simple dream: to educate people about how the world works so that, through understanding, we might bring about something better. Having a map of where we are lets us understand where we might go”

— Julian Assange

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What Makes a Leader Great?

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