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Two things that make me cray-cray:

1) people who confuse kindness and mercy with weakness;

2) people who confuse values and beliefs with strongly-held (and usually very tenuous) personal convictions about nearly everything under the Sun.

Someone close to me once said the secret to happiness is to lower your expectations, or to limit the number of things you feel really strongly about.

I don't completely subscribe to this point of view. To me happiness has more to do with severely limiting the number of things I consider myself an expert on, and even then trying really damn hard to pretend I don't know anything about those subjects all day long.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ATJhCIeaqo

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Ian Campbell 🏴 2y ago

nostr:npub1wf44gvmu4g6x0gwwjgrnlw0f8dxmvx7h929k057wwv8hwa8clq6snr94wn When I was young, I loved feeling like I was the smartest in the room.

When I grew up further and got into a room full of much smarter people, once I got over the initial ego wound, I learned to shut up and listen, and every time I do that I learn so much more.

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