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Russ Roberts on Making Better Decisions

The Daily Stoic

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Are You Attracted to the Power of Your Father?

I tend to find that it's sort of daddy issues all the way, all the way. I think what happens too is there's a plutarch line that I think about often. We want to be the number one person so we can tell other people what to do,. But not be told what to do. This creates the Steve Jobs archetype that every Silicon Valley entrepreneur wants to be because it seems easier than doing the harder way. And here's the irony, we feel like that anyway. Even if I'm a third tier poet, I may feel I deserve to be except from some of these obligations due to my genius.

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