Success generally seems to make people more boring, self-certain, and unfunny (irony: many will dogmatically evangelize systematic doubt while performing the opposite life stance).
Sign that you’re dealing with one of the exceptions: *increased* ability to laugh at themselves.
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I try to balance being conventionally successful (which I am) by doing absurd shit in equal proportion (like pretending to be a lion on the Internet)

