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sounds_sound  ·  4354 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What's the best (and/or most interesting) piece of advice you've ever heard?

A professor of mine in grad school once told me "Don't race for the middle". He was talking more in terms of career, but it definitely relates to life in general. To me, it means to not settle. To always have a pursuit in life and to make that pursuit an exceptional one. To always want better for yourself and your family.





ma6ic  ·  4353 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Arthur C Clark writes in 2001: A space oddesy that when humans evolved (or were given) the sense of Dissatisfaction it was the turning point in our evolutionary heritage leading to all progress.

user-inactivated  ·  4353 days ago  ·  link  ·  

In grad school I heard "always aim for the highest" and I found it the best piece of advice later. If I had only wished to be what I became, I guess I would be even much lower...