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hsrada on April 29, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: The days are long but the decades are short

> 11) Go out of your way to be around smart, interesting, ambitious people.

That is hard.

pbowyer on April 29, 2015 [–]

Especially if your significant other's career takes you from a university city full of smart, interesting people to an industrial town in the middle of nowhere.

The internet is a poor medium for motivation and learning compared to real people.

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