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How to Pick Your Life Partner
In picking people for long-term relationships, values are most important, abilities come next, and skills are the least important. Yet most people make the mistake of choosing skills and abilities first and overlooking values. We value people most who have what I call the three C’s: character, common sense, and creativity.
Ray Dalio • Principles: Life and Work
Over time, the argument for marriage has shifted. It’s no longer about external forces having power over us: religions, the state, the legal idea of legitimacy, the social idea of being respectable … What we are correctly now focused on is the psychological point of making it hard to throw in the towel. It turns out that we benefit greatly (though
... See moreAlain De Botton • The School of Life: An Emotional Education
Which acquaintance is most likely to know a lot of people that you’re compatible with? Not all people have equally large networks, and some people you know may be “hubs” that have a large number of connections. If you can find someone like this, they are usually quite helpful in meeting new people. “Hubs” frequently have weak ties to a lot of diffe... See more
nfx.com • Your Life Is Driven by Network Effects
Choosing a spouse and choosing a career: the two great decisions for which society refuses to set up institutional guidance and that are – together – responsible for destroying more of our lives than all others.