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skills

  • fast

  • wait

  • think

treasures

  • simplicity - in actions and thoughts

  • patience - with both friends and enemies

  • compassion - towards yourself

way

  • creating without possessing

  • acting without expecting

  • guiding without interfering

actions

  • love

  • serve

  • remember

doings

  • effortless

  • easy

  • enjoyable

dharma

  • love

  • serve

  • believe

character

  • deportment

  • countenance

  • speech

attainment

  • wealth

  • health

  • peace

mental

  • resilience

  • creativity

  • focus

being

  • goodwill

  • forgiveness

  • lovingness

soul-encasing

  • causal

  • astral

  • physical

imagination

  • conceive

  • believe

  • achieve

meaning

  • creativity

  • connection

  • contribution

self-realization

  • sankhya

  • yoga

  • vedanta

gunas

  • darkening - tamo

  • activating - rajo

  • elevating - sattwa


beneficial friendship

  • those who are upright

  • those whom you can trust

  • those of broad learning

harmful friendship

  • those with practiced manners

  • an affected sweetness

  • a glib tongue

beneficial pleasure

  • hitting the right measure in your practice of rites and music

  • of celebrating the goodness of others

  • of having many worthy friends

harmful pleasure

  • being self-important

  • of being a slacker and a loafer

  • of drinking and feasting to excess

mistakes when attending a gentleman

  • to speak when it is not one's turn to speak - impetuous

  • not to speak when it is one's turn to speak - evasive

  • to speak without taking notice of other person's expression - being blind

guard against

  • young - sensuous temptations

  • prime - being combative

  • waned - being grasping

in awe of

  • Heaven's mandate

  • great men

  • the words of sages

no's

  • do not raise the important of anything - nothing is as important as it looks

  • do not create idols - in fact they are much more earthly than they present themselves

  • do not beautify reality - everything is much more prosaic


career

  • don't sell anything you wouldn't buy yourself

  • don't work for anyone you don't respect and admire

  • work only with people you enjoy

motivation

  • desire to be useful

  • desire to tell stories

  • desire to collect stuff

work

  • excellent

  • necessary

  • trustworthy

success

  • circle of competence

  • focus

  • patience

learning

  • imitate

  • assimilate

  • innovate

great delusions

  • sex

  • wine

  • money

keys to success

  • knowledge

  • intuition

  • energy

game theory

  • be nice

  • be forgiving

  • don't be a push-over

hero's journey

  • separation

  • initiation

  • return

aspects of reality

  • pain

  • uncertainty

  • constant work

equipment

  • wool

  • titanium

  • carbon fiber

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