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James Nicholas's avatar

I think Socrates was a bit extreme when he said 'An unexamined life is not worth living', but I think you are illustrating that examining can enhance living.

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Aditya Jahagirdar's avatar

I'm pretty sure your marginal pleasure from a comment is higher so here you go

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Joe Hovde's avatar

Correct! Thank you :)

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Mark Hovde's avatar

I think you are ignoring a big benefit of your writing. You are investing in your education. You are like an LLM that is being trained on a highly curated data set of experiences (successful and otherwise) that should put you in a great position to make smarter business and investment decisions later on. You will also be in a great position as stoicists say to “negatively visualize” alternative scenarios, which will put your path and choices in a stronger comparative framework. IMHO there will be wisdom in this.

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Joe Hovde's avatar

That's true! I think writing does help with that. I've found myself referencing things I've written in the past to jog my memory which is a nice feeling of compounding

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