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love - separate bank accounts (source: my grandfather)

ethics - imagine your grandmother is going to find out about everything you do, conduct yourself in this manner always (not verbatim, but from an early mentor)

career - if it was easy, everybody would do it and it wouldn't pay so well (early mentor, this helped me realize that the difficulties I face currently are actually evidence that I'm doing something worthwhile)

 

"No glove, no love".

As someone who has slept with well over 200 women , it has prevented me from contracting many diseases - some potentially life threatening - as well as avoid any unwanted pregnancies. 

 

The two that I live by:

  • "Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."
  • Modern Version: "A man’s name should only appear in the newspaper three times in his life: when he is born, when he gets married and when he dies."
Namaste. D.O.U.G.
 

“Success is a function of failure.“

Before hearing this, I imagined all successful people are inherently successful and they have an indescribable trait that makes them successful. I mean, I saw guys get 90s in school effortlessly and so, I assumed that it was true and everyone who fails will fail. However, after hearing this and thinking about how true it is, I realized that success and failure have a relationship where one needs the other to survive.

Today, whenever I fail at something, I always think of those six words and keep doing it again until I eventually improve.

 

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