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Jacob Clarke's avatar

The reminder to look up and appreciate things now and then is a really important lesson that is always a great piece of advice. Thanks, Andrew!

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TheAbjectLesson's avatar

I think the sentence that ends with "introspection and hubris" (near the bottom) is supposed to be "introspection and *humility*" - the opposite of hubris is what you're looking for there in word choice, I believe.

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Andrew | Dad Explains's avatar

Fix'd!

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Andrew | Dad Explains's avatar

YES!

Thank you for catching that.

Hubris was on the mind, humility was the intent.

Wonderful!

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TheAbjectLesson's avatar

I’ve done that so many times myself I could almost hear your thoughts as you’re writing it.

(You’re targeting hubris the whole piece, you’ve got the perfect setup, and internally you get to “introspection & H-U-” and your brain just glides right on past while your fingers put that there).

Nice piece. Our first Land Nav instructor at TBS stomped on the ground and made us all repeat the word “reification” multiple times before we ever started stomping the ground. The deadly sin of LandNav, Science, and Life is reification.

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