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  "description": "I just turned 30. I wanted to share 30 things I’ve learned in the past 30 years. Or at least the things I",
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  "textContent": "I just turned 30. I wanted to share 30 things I’ve learned in the past 30 years. Or at least the things I wrote down over the past 8 months.\n\nDon’t rely on school to give you an education.\n\nAlways write things down, and always carry something to do so.\n\nYou get what you pay for, especially when it’s free.\n\nShowing respect for someone is the easiest way to show you love them.\n\nLove should not expect recognition.\n\nFind a way to track what you do and stick to it.\n\nIt’s not that the grass is greener; it’s just that the weeds are less visible.\n\nFor the first 30 years of your life, you make your habits. For the last 30 years, your habits make you. (Still waiting to see if this is true)\n\nBeing physically prepared is not enough for what lies ahead.\n\nNeedlessly endangering lives speaks volumes for how much you care.\n\nAlways return something in better condition than when you borrowed it.\n\nFiguring out what you love is the easy part. Discovering where and for whom to do it are often compromises.\n\nWords cannot open another’s mind. — Mumon’s poem about the koan\n\nIf you don’t have time to do it right the first time, when are you going to have time to do it again?\n\nWorrying is the biggest waste of time.\n\nWhere your look, you will go.\n\nIt is better to make money than save money.\n\nDon’t expect other people to understand how you feel. Even when you tell them.\n\nDo not be wise in your own eyes. — Prov 3:7\n\nIf you want to spend more time in something, then make more time for something. — source\n\nKnowledge should be sought not ‘for superiority [over] others, or for profit, or fame, or power…but for the benefit and use of life’ — Francis Bacon\n\nPeople don’t buy what you do; they buy why you do it — source\n\n“We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.” — Lloyd Alexander\n\nYou are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.\n\nDon’t sulk over unfinished business.\n\n---\n\n_Originally published at 1n73r.net on September 27, 2013._",
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