As Adults there are 3 Mistakes we can All Make — But can it be Different?

Lord Paul Adam Mudd
Thrive Global
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3 min readJun 22, 2017

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So, what are these 3 mistakes & how might things be different to help us to be our best self and live life to the Max?

  • Not loving hard enough — Well I think that the 13th-century Persian Sunni Muslim poet Rumi rather hit the nail on the head when he wrote: “Love makes bitter sweet, copper gold, shadows vanish, death into life, leaders into slaves. From understanding comes love” So, I think on that basis we’ve all got to try to understand that we need to love as hard as we can, and do it now!
  • Not giving as much as we canNO, It’s not the same as not loving as hard as we can, but rather it’s more about what we don’t give to any situation — that bit, or part of us that we hold back. Perhaps to protect ourself from fully feeling in the moment. Perhaps to try and protect ourself from the pain of inevitable loss — but here’s the kicker, loss is inevitable — & then we are left asking ourself, “Is that all it was?” Never truly feeling or experiencing — Never feeling as though we’ve really lived. Put it this waywithout fasting i.e. direct, tangible experience, can there ever be true feasting? I think these words by Hunter S Thompson provide a pretty cool play-book for how we might solve this all to common predicament: “Life should not be a

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Lord Paul Adam Mudd
Thrive Global

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