Ask HN: Name one idea that changed your life

Re:Ask HN: Name one idea that changed your life by sharemywin on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @12:37PM (#23093085)

You have to accept the world doesn't revolve around you. and that's hard for people.

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Re:Ask HN: Name one idea that changed your life by pstuart on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @05:16PM (#23096406)

I have a twist on that: "You are the center of the universe, and so is everybody else"

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Re:Ask HN: Name one idea that changed your life by brain5ide on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @06:26PM (#23097114)

How's the water today, boys?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CrOL-ydFMI

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Re:Ask HN: Name one idea that changed your life by pstuart on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @07:25PM (#23097663)

I love that speech. But I had the notion I shared well before encountering it :-).

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Re:Ask HN: Name one idea that changed your life by lukifer on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @12:44PM (#23093209)

And in the same breath, accepting that it's entirely natural / inevitable that others tend to operate as though the world revolves around them, and forgiving them for it (within reason). Carnegie's "How To Win Friends..." is corny and dated but still relevant.

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Re:Ask HN: Name one idea that changed your life by ver_ture on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @02:33PM (#23094645)

I'm glad that I can recognize it for the corny and giddy book it is, because a few years ago I worshiped it. Many of its lessons regard selflessness, and fanning others' egos. It's like the fast food of social advice, 'let them eat cake.'

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