‘Live For Others’ Is A Lie

MaryBeth
DataDrivenInvestor
Published in
5 min readJun 13, 2019

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Most people think that our purpose here on this earth is to live for others. To give, to serve. It’s one of those platitudes that we’ve just come to accept. And on the surface, it sounds good. Who wouldn’t want to help others? Scrooge, maybe. No one wants to be Scrooge.

But there’s a problem.

‘Live for others’ is a lie.

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