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Re:Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accompl... by smacktoward on Thursday September 26, 2019 @02:25PM (#21083871)
The soft overcomes the hard.

The slow overcomes the fast.

Let your workings remain a mystery.

Just show people the results.

-- Tao Te Ching, Chapter 36, Stephen Mitchell translation (http://taoteching.org.uk/index.php?c=36&a=Stephen+Mitchell)

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Re:Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accompl... by forgotpwd16 on Friday September 27, 2019 @03:39AM (#21089436)
Compared with the others translation on the same chapter, Mitchell's translation supposedly conveys the meaning rather than being exact?
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