It's almost as if we have two lobes in our brain. There's the consumer and investor mode, and … - Robert Reich

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I have learned to acknowledge and appreciate the 98% that I have achieved instead of the 2% that I didn't.

Robert Reich

It's almost as if we have two lobes in our brain. There's the consumer and investor mode, and we're doing better and better at that lobe. But at the producer and seller mode, we have to work harder and harder. And the better we do as consumers and investors - the easier it is for us to choose something better, to exit every commercial relationship - the harder we have to work as sellers and producers. One follows from the other.

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