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+author = "Kumar Damani"
+title = "A list of my personal favourite life advice"
+date = "2023-09-01"
+draft = false
+description = "A list of my personal favourite life advice."
+tags = [
+    "lists",
+    "personal",
+]
+math = false
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+
+I outline my favourite life advice, where I have heard it, and what it means to me.
+<!--more-->
+
+## Everything in moderation, including moderation. <cite>[^1]</cite>
+<br>
+
+| | |
+| -------- | -------- |
+| ![balancing rocks](balance.jpg) | ![indulgence painting](indulgence.jpg)|
+
+
+The first part is fairly self-explanatory.
+The second part says to moderate the moderation.
+In other words, on occasion, it is ok to indulge.
+After all, some of the best moments in life come from indulgence.
+Don't be the person who is always moderating, or you will miss out on 100% of those moments.
+
+
+This reminds me of a paradigm in Computation called [Reinforcement Learning](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforcement_learning)
+(RL), where learning is maximized
+by balancing existing knowledge, with occasional spurts of exploration.
+Without exploration, we find that we are generally unlikely to end up at an
+optimal solution, thus showing us its importance.
+
+If the objective of life is to attain long-term (cumulative) happiness,
+then we can say that moderation is the current knowledge, and occasional indulgence
+are the spurts of exploration, and both must be balanced in order to maximize our objective.
+
+
+## Chew your food. Well. <cite>[^2]</cite>
+<br>
+
+![chewing](chewing.gif)
+
+This one is quite underrated.
+We all know that our digestion health is such a large contributor to our overall well-being.
+Yet we religiously neglect the first step of the process - chewing.
+
+I specifically recall my grandpa saying "*chew it until it becomes a paste*".
+Gross but effective.
+No matter what your diet is composed of, its not debatable that chewing better will only
+ever help your digestion, never harm.
+
+Another benefit? Sitting down and consciously chewing requires time and effort.
+If you aren't doing it, maybe its a sign that you are rushing.
+Why are you rushing? Maybe its time to re-evaluate some things in your life.
+
+## Don't worry so much about budgeting, focus on earning more. <cite>[^3]</cite>
+<br>
+
+![money bob ross](money.jpg)
+
+This one is somewhat controversial.
+I think this stems from the notion that there is a hard limit to how much you can restrict your spending to - $0.
+But no limit to how much you can earn. So why not focus on that?
+
+I think this is largely a time-management principle.
+Maybe you've heard the idiom "penny wise, and pound foolish".
+If money is the *penny*, then your time is the *pound*.
+Don't be foolish with your time.
+
+People often will go out of their way believing they are saving a certain amount of money
+but hardly ever factoring in the value of the time spent saving that amount.
+And more often than not, that time is spent doing something that is not enjoyable.
+
+That same time could've been spent on trying to earn more money than what was saved or
+at the very least doing something actually enjoyable.
+
+
+## Never work for someone who you don't want to become. <cite>[^4]</cite>
+<br>
+
+{{< figure src="boss.jpg" title="" width="50%" >}}
+
+This one has helped me substantially in my career.
+More important than finding the right role/career is finding the right mentor.
+I've personally switched roles based on this advice, and I can attribute most
+my success as a direct result of this.
+
+We tend to emulate people that we are influenced by.
+By working for such a manager, you are setting yourself up to emulate someone you look up to -
+which is a great thing!
+I also consider this one of the few advantages of being an employee rather than an owner.
+Don't waste it!
+
+[^1]: Kia - my Jitsu instructor at U of T
+[^2]: Grandparents
+[^3]: John Hill from the [Super Hoopers podcast](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/super-hoopers-an-nba-podcast/id1053263719) quoting some book
+[^4]: Mark Cuban? or Mr. Wonderful? or someone from Shark Tank IIRC
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