Wisdom Quotes for Personal Growth and Daily Success

If you have good measures of conscientiousness and IQ, you can predict someone's success in the competitive landscape with a correlation of about 0.6

If enough people take responsibility for getting their individual life's together then we'll get wise enough so we won't let this process of political polarization put us back to the same places that we went so many times in the 20th century. I don't see another antidote for it. It's not political, it's ethical

All values must be defended:
Political values
Social values
Community values
Family values
Marriage values
Friendship values
Business values
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Every garden must be tended all summer

How to write a good essay?

Write an essay so that you can think and you think so that you can live properly. Write carefully, make sure that every single bloody word is a word that you want to use and you make sure the phrases that you put the worlds in are as solid as they can be. And you make sure the sentences are well constructed and that they're organized into proper paragraphs and the paragraphs are sequenced and the content of the thing matters and you put your soul into it. And you know when you've done that because it's gripping when you write. It's meaningfully engaging