How to Win Friends and Get Things Done ... With Wisdom?

There’s no question it’s possible to get ahead in life by lying and cheating and generally being awful to other people. This may even be a quick way to the top. But it comes at the expense of not only your self-respect, but your security too. Virtue, on the other hand, as crazy as it might seem, is a far more attainable and sustainable way to succe

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1. Other people are, on the whole, decent - and when they’re not, they’re usually acting out of fear. I concluded this after meeting a lot of random folk when I was working as a travel writer, and while evil people certainly exist I still think this rule is generally true - and over a decade of working on an internet riddled with negativity bias and

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Wisdom is sometimes thought to be timeless and abstract. But the kinds of wisdom we need to make better decisions in our lives—around work or relationships—or as a society are very much matters of context. It is therefore more useful to think of wisdom as bringing together a set of ways of thinking—cleverness, knowledge and ethics—to guide decision

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