1/ Do not try to understand your life in terms of your skills or passions. They are NOT predictive of what you'll end up doing.
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2/ The best predictor of your life outcome is what persistently annoys you about your life situation: your itches.
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3/ If nobody is trying too hard to stop you doing what you want, your itches will determine what you do.
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4/ Good exercise to figure out your itches is to ask what your life would have been like 50, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600, 3200, 6400 years ago
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5/ That's coming of age in: 1964, 1914, 1814, 1614, 1214, 414, 1187 BC, 4387 BC. All of post hunter-gatherer history basically.
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so in most of those eras I would have been a powerless breeder...
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