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#500 - Special: 18 Lessons From 500 Episodes
Modern Wisdom
The Secret of Confucianism
In the early stages of training, an aspiring confucian gentleman needs to memorize entire shelves of archaic texts. All this rigour and restraint is ultimately aimed at producing a cultivated, but none the less genuine form of spontaneity. Indeed, the process of training is not considered complete until the individual has passed completely beyond the need for thought or effort. So ye, what got you here won't get you there. Next one, a roman desirability has almost no predictive power for a long term relationship happiness. And his book, don't trust your got is fantastic.
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