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You know, being compassionate usually feels better than feeling right. Being right also gets you less far in life. Just a little life lesson I learned the hard way after 40 years of "being right". I used to make comments like this. Still occasionally do, old habits die hard.

Anyway, you also find out that being compassionate is also usually more right than being right. The problem is that, when trying to be right, you stop being inquisitive.

Now you might ask, "hey, you know, I always think people are lazy, good-for-nothing whiners, but now you are telling me that there are people that have some kind of neurological problem that makes it a lot harder for them to overcome the initial friction of starting a project/thinking deep?"

Or if you dont follow me in this argumentation: Would you tell a cripple to "Stop whining about the most trivial of inconveniences, and just walk. We all learned to walk as kids, you are doing yourself and all the other cripple kids a disservice!"




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