Let Sleeping Dogs Lie - Erik Torenberg

Housekeeping: We just launched an investor rating site on Product Hunt. Please upvote us today and submit a review. We’re at 200 reviews and I’m trying to get to 1,000 by end of this week. Thank you! Sometimes, being too principled (needing to "make things right") can get in the way of flourishing because it prevents you from accepting complicated people & situations and "going with the flow”. Of course, sometimes cutting out people and situations is exactly what you need to do, but many people are often too quick to do this. It’s like in basketball when the ref makes a bad call and you protest to the ref instead of getting back on defense, and then you refuse to keep playing because on ‘principle’ the ref made a bad call and now the game needs to stop until the bad call is corrected. Basketball is actually a good analogy because there’s this common phrase, “ball don’t lie” which is meant to imply a just world where the injustices even themselves out overtime. As in, if a bad foul is c

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