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Re:Ask HN: What's Your Biggest Regret? by smoldesu on Friday October 07, 2022 @10:27AM (#33121812)
It's a shame he never took the advice to heart. Jobs' last days were unnecessarily painful for both himself and his family, who desperately tried helping him only to be pushed away and insulted.

Jobs was good at echoing the wisdom of people smarter than him, but not so great at using those principles to fix his own life.

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Re:Ask HN: What's Your Biggest Regret? by voisin on Friday October 07, 2022 @05:39PM (#33127179)
> Jobs was good at echoing the wisdom of people smarter than him, but not so great at using those principles to fix his own life.

This applies to most people.

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Re:Ask HN: What's Your Biggest Regret? by hirvi74 on Friday October 07, 2022 @10:16PM (#33129242)
Yep, my favorite philosopher, Alan Watts basically died from alcoholism. Though, I am not sure whether his teachings would condone that or not for I have seen a few people argue either way.
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Re:Ask HN: What's Your Biggest Regret? by parroteal on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @08:23AM (#33162481)
Oh, wow! I didn't know that. I've listened to him for hours and hours.

The thing with alcohol (and most psychoactive drugs) is it literally changes the brain - and by that the person. The young person that says: "I would never let it get this far!" is basically right when it says that. But prolonged use of the drug changes that person. And that new person definitely will let it get this far, because it sees new justifications for doing so.

I know from experience unfortunately.

I don't think sober Alan Watts would approve of severe alcoholism as something 'no better or worse' than any other activity to spend your day. But I can clearly see a drinking Alan Watts run circles around anybody arguing the same thing.

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Re:Ask HN: What's Your Biggest Regret? by paidefsou on Monday October 17, 2022 @07:35AM (#33232177)
One of my best too! Best line i have ever read is quoted in a few lines i wrote here...https://www.pedefsou.com/posts/still-forgeting-to-live-the-m...
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Re:Ask HN: What's Your Biggest Regret? by fakedang on Saturday October 08, 2022 @03:03AM (#33130404)
> Jobs was good at echoing the wisdom of people smarter than him, but not so great at using those principles to fix his own life.

One quote by Konosuke Matsushita that I've heard (which I think he quoted from a Japanese one) :

The light is darkest underneath the lighthouse.

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