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What They Don't Tell You at Graduation - WSJ.com
"1. Your time in fraternity basements was well spent.
2. Some of your worst days lie ahead.
3. Don't make the world worse.
4. Marry someone smarter than you are.
5. Help stop the Little League arms race.
6. Read obituaries.
7. Your parents don't want what is ...
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Stand Up for Fitness
Apparently, exercise alone is not enough. You also have to not sit. Great.
"Exercise only slightly lessened the health risks of sitting. People in the study who exercised for seven hours or more a week but spent at least seven hours a day in front of the television were more ...
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To Find Happiness, Forget About Passion - Oliver Segovia - Harvard Business Review
"Like myself, today's twentysomethings were raised to find our dreams and follow them. But it's a different world. And as the jobless generation grows up, we realize the grand betrayal of the false idols of passion. This philosophy no longer works for us, or at most, feels incomplete ...
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Lessons in the Art of Pillow-Fort Construction - NYTimes.com
Tips on building and allowing kids to make it their own.
“You never know when you’re going to build your last fort.”
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The Tree of Life
Not sure exactly what to say, but this movie taught me some important things about being the father of a son. It will help if you go in not expecting a normal movie. The person who recommended it to me said just experience it. That's about right. I don ...
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Gentlemint.com Site Info
Somewhat surprising: "Relative to the general internet population, Females are over-represented at gentlemint.com."
Not surprising: "Relative to the general internet population, people browsing from work are over-represented at gentlemint.com."
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Jonah Lehrer on How to Be Creative - WSJ.com
Sometimes you need to keep working to get to that breakthrough. Sometimes you need to do something else.
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The Once and Future King by T.H. White - Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists
Education is experience
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Culture and Anarchy (by Matthew Arnold)
[O]ne must, I think, be struck more and more, the longer one lives, to find how much, in our present society, a man’s life of each day depends for its solidity and value on whether he reads during that day, and, far more still, on what he reads ...
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