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#35 Robert Greene: Alive Time vs. Dead Time

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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The Laws Are Not Just the Literal Meaning

What happens first always appears better and more original than what comes after. A very important law, an law forty one, is avoid stepping into a great man' shoes. You don't want to be lost in other people's shadow. And you're always going to be compared to the person who came before you. But has metaphoragreed, you don’t want em. YouAlways want to set off in a fresh direction. The laws are not just the literal meaning. There's psychology, greater psychology behind it - wherever you enter, whatever you do, there's a predecessor.

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