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General Life Skills
The Standard Path
There are shelves and shelves of books and thousands of websites dedicated to helping people become successful. I can summarize darn near the entire section with a single statement:
“Get a good night’s sleep, manage your time wisely, treat people like people, and leverage the skills and talents of those around you.”
The Evil Path
This is pretty simple. The Evil path is when you use people for your personal gain and the equation always adds up in your favor. An easy experiment to see if you are on the Evil path would be to approach ten coworkers and ask them, “Hey, do you have five minutes to drop me off at the garage to get my car sometime this morning?” Score yourself based on how many people agree ...
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