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"Do not waste the vast majority of your life doing something you hate so that you can spend the small remainder sliver of your life in modest comfort. You may never reach that end anyway."

Always loved a similar quote by Thoreau:

"This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it reminds me of the Englishman who went to India to make a fortune first, in order that he might return to England and live the life of a poet. He should have gone up the garret at once."




How about using 7 years for a life of not needing to work? Seems fair to me...


If you would succeed that is. The question is what happens if you dont? Try another seven years of doing sth only for the monies?


Except that you may die tomorrow.


Well, you can use that excuse never to do anything slightly unpleasant. Why do the dishes?


Because not doing the dishes is even more unpleasant.




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