Also, I didn't mean to imply those are the five most important things in life or anything like that. I just wanted to avoid the specific mistakes she described.
It's great that they have these ideals now that they are esteemed critical thinkers, businessmen, and artists. "Would they have been more or less successful if they had had these ideals back then?" is the question that I would like answered.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3877084 This reminds me of a Zen Buddhist text that goes like this - “The Master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence in everything he does, leaving others to determine whether he is at work or at play. To him, he is always doing both.”
Still, it's hard to argue with this advice...
* I believe Medicare (covers most Americans over 65) provides some in-home hospice benefit, so I'm not saying this is limited to the extremely rich, but it is limited to those with a home and the wherewithal to seek hospice care.
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If you define something to be only the positive effects of something else, then by definition you cannot have any negative effects of the first something. "Live a happy life!" is that sort of statement. "Make friends!" is another.
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