Category: life lessons
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Three Soul-Healing Quotes by Nobel Price Winner Rabindranath Tagore
Learn from the wisdom of one of the best poets of all time. I have a disturbing theory about poetry. Poetry is like code: it programs our minds to feel in a specific way and vibrate at specific frequencies. That is why there are poems that make us happy while others make us sad. Therefore, I…
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Three Life Lessons We Can All Learn From Walt Disney
#3 — Go to the light. “Let’s not forget that it all started with a mouse,” Walt Disney used to say. He did it not to lose perspective and work hard. But in 1931 — although already successful — he did not know that he would create a billionaire empire that would last until today. In that same year (1931), Gilbert Seldes…
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As You Awaken, the More “Unsexy” Your Life Becomes
(At least the mundane one.) I’m 13 years old. I’m at the bus station in Salamanca. I put my hand in a machine like the one in the movie Big. I get a little piece of paper that says: “You will have an interesting life, but you will be poor.” 🙁 I take the bus with the…
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My 92-year-old Grandfather’s Method of Finding Out How Smart Someone is
Learn from the wisdom of an old soul. My grandfather was born in 1923 and died a few years ago. He survived the famine, the Spanish Civil War, the Second World War, and decades of Franco’s dictatorship. His secret was to anticipate events. My grandfather knew how to invest in Amazon when it went public in…
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Four Worthless Things in Life
Learn from my 42 years of experience of trusting the wrong person. My most extended friendship was 26 years. A friend from kindergarten with whom I kept in touch until I was in my thirties. During those 26 years of relationship, I did many things for our friendship. Yesterday, I was training in the park and…
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Four Subtle Signs That You Are a Toxic Person Without Knowing It
Learn from my old toxic behaviors and not be like I was 🙂 The most toxic person I have ever met in my life was me. So toxic I was that if I could travel back in time, I would visit each of my exes and yell, “Danger! Danger! Run away, don’t believe their lies”. I’m…
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Three Good Things You Can Take From Bad Times
#2. Bad times give you a chance to start over. All that pain you feel has a reason. You may not be able to see it today, but you will look back years from now and find to your amazement, that all the storms you went through were necessary. I know you know this, but it…
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18 Life Lessons That Every Grandparent Should Teach Their Grandchildren
#15. Please don’t believe everything they say on TV. Grandparents should be eternal, but they are not. So, yesterday I did something crazy and asked my Twitter audience (116k people) for the best lesson they received from their grandparents. And the tweet already has more than 35 thousand views and almost 180 responses. From those 180…
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Three Life Lessons I Learned After the Universe F*cked Me Over
Three life lessons got me out of the hole that I wish someone had shared with me earlier. A few years ago, I lost all I cared about. My Startup, girlfriend, friends, and all my savings. All the same month. When I realized I was living in a two-square-meter room in a shared flat, which was…
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The Mind-blowing Quote by Milan Kundera That Will Make You Rethink Your Reality
Rethinking your life is sometimes a matter of reading the right quote. There is a small second-hand bookshop that I usually pass by, and I love to look in the window and let myself be seduced by the titles of the books on display. And whenever a book catches my eye, I go in and buy…