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“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
“Bottom line: they were extremely bright people who would never really do anything, would never add much to society, would leave no legacy behind. I found this terribly sad, in the way that wasted potential is always sad.”
Maybe it’s a bit anticlimactic or annoying, but it’s also true: the antidote to indecision is to… well… start making decisions. These shifts just make that process easier by lowering the stakes and prioritizing action.