Darwin, grant me the apathy to externalize the things I cannot change,
Excellence to optimize the things I can,
And the mediocrity to ignore the difference.
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This is like sending a Christmas List to Natural Selection. If it could write back, it would say “You are just nature’s way of keeping meat fresh.” However, a request for a cocktail of apathy, excellence, mediocrity might confuse it and buy your genes some time.
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