>>The main tool: only take advice from people with lives you like.
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>The simplicity of that statement may be its strength, but it's also its
>weakness.
"What is Man that thou art mindful of him?"
Advice may be the last thing to take from anybody, and emulation is never an answer, although it is a theory.
What, besides the accidents and pre-positionings of privilege and class-status and cultural opportunities, makes success apparent and possible, and in what way can that impress one to move in that direction?
In my case, I admire both Apollo and Dionysius, John Glenn and Hugh Hefner, Confucius and de Sade, Richard Rodgers and Frank Zappa....