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Devote the back half of your life to serving others with your wisdom. Get old sharing the things you believe are most important. Excellence is always its own reward, and this is how you can be most excellent as you age.
However, I have met a lot of people who cross over into workaholism, and I am guilty of this myself. Here are, in my opinion, better questions: 1. Do you fail to reserve part of your energy for your loved ones after work and stop working only when you are a desiccated husk of a human being? 2. Do you sneak around to work? For example, when your spouse leaves the house on a Sunday, do you immediately turn to work and then put it away before she or he returns so that it is not apparent what you were doing? 3. Does it make you anxious and unhappy when someone—such as your spouse—suggests you take
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What all addictions have in common is that they involve an unhealthy relationship with something unworthy of human love,
No one is ever famous enough, rich enough, or powerful enough.
Satisfaction comes not from chasing bigger and bigger things, but paying attention to smaller and smaller things.
The lesson is that if you want to make a deep human connection with someone, your strengths and worldly successes won’t cut it. You need your weaknesses for that.
When you use your weaknesses to connect with others, love in your life will grow. And finally—finally—you will be able to relax without worrying about being exposed as less than people think you are.
To share your weakness without caring what others think is a kind of superpower.
If you are reluctant to embrace your weaknesses, start by imagining the peace in your heart from no longer pretending you are not weak.
So let me summarize the whole book in seven—a formula that encapsulates all the lessons I have learned and now strive to live: Use things. Love people. Worship the divine.
