Speaker unverified: belief

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…You said so many smart things there. Just to pick one, it’s funny that sometimes the advice givers, the wisdom givers have gone through all the bullshit, and so there is a degree to which you want to make the mistake. So I think I would still give the advice of you want to have a stretch of your life, where you work too hard, including anything that fails. I don’t think you can learn the lessons why that’s a bad idea in any other way except by doing it. There is a degree, but of course you don’t… I think you should stretch. Should you have to stretch for a decade? I’m not so sure. Yeah. The decade thing is 20s is a special time.…

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