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I recently traveled to Galați.

It made me reconsider some things:

• The apartment I stayed in probably had thin walls because I could hear, when sleeping, people talking in a normal voice in a nearby apartment through the walls. I didn’t have this problem in other places I stayed in.
• I borrowed a person a cable, and that person (most likely) treated it very poorly (they must have applied a big force to it. They just confirmed a stereotype.
• I got to compare how well the buses Constanța-Brăila and Brăila-Galați (and back) were versus the bus Constanța-Năvodari.

As a conclusion, traveling is good for comparing things.

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Following a recent article (The best titles that all articles about successful people have – Blog de Olivian Breda), I want to present you something else: there are plenty of articles that claim they found a solution for you to become the next Steve Jobs (a search »).

Some of these articles claim they have found the trick in Steve Jobs’ sleeve – how was it that it was so successful?

The thing is – there are much more articles on how to be like Steve Jobs than new Steve Jobs seem to show up.

So, a lot of people claim to know Steve Jobs, and they can teach you some things from his life, but yet new Steve Jobs doesn’t show up.

Perhaps the articles are not that bad, but it does help put things in perspective – lots of solutions/pieces of advice, but few actual examples.

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You should „get lost in the present moment” (like children tend to do).
„Not thinking about the past, not preoccupied with the future, but completely caught up with a kind of joyful abandon in the present moment”.
The solution? „… like a child, be able to live with a kind of beautiful, joyful abandon in the present moment”.

(via »)

Did I tell you how much I appreciate Bishop Barron? Because I do. :)

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There are plenty of articles with the best habits of successful people (all sorts of variants based on that title).

Yet, when you read most of the articles with such titles, you’ll find that the titles were 100% misleading.

The authors didn’t go through biographies of famous and successful people, didn’t spend time with them, and didn’t interview them.

No, the authors of such articles simply present a list of what they think and 100% imagine that a successful person would do.

I feel a bit annoyed to see how such articles exist and flourish, considering that they have misleading titles.

I’m also to blame; I click on articles with such titles, encouraging their further development.

Sure, a title that says, „These are eight things that all the successful people do,” is more attractive than „What I imagine and fantasize that successful people do.”

I used to wonder – „How do they do it? How do they know what those eight things are? How did they find out?” It seems it’s just imagination, presented in a manipulative way.

So, coming back to the title of this article: „The best titles that all articles about successful people have.” What are they? I don’t know.

But I would hope that they’re not misleading and, instead, they’re just the truth.

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I once heard Horia-Roman Patapievici saying something along the lines of: I used to have emotions when doing public speaking. Then I realized that it was a form of pride, and my emotions disappeared.

I remembered his line of thinking but couldn’t understand it well until I reached the same conclusion with the emotions in my life.

Recently, I discovered one more thing related to this: if I think of a mistake in the past and regret it, I’m culpable of being too proud.

What do I expect? To have a perfect life?

Sure, some things in the past are embarrassing, things don’t turn out the way I intended, and I made some small, medium, large, and more than large errors.

But it’s part of life, part of learning. I couldn’t have done it any better, and I wouldn’t be the man I was today had it not been for those errors.

A man who claims they should have made no errors is a proud man (not in a good sense).

It’s best to avoid errors, to not do them on purpose, and to be prepared & alert.

But if errors and mistakes happen, they’re part of the line.

Remembering them makes them vivid in my mind. If this isn’t a helpful behavior, avoid it altogether.

There are some clear advantages of being melancholic. But if, overall, it doesn’t help, avoid this state.

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What a wonderful quote:

„Love is what remains when all other emotions are gone.” – Naval Ravikant (via; via)

Sometimes, you might get upset, feel resentment, or be angry. Time passes, and you care about the person.

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