Does success require you to be a shitty person? - by Kasra

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ambition and kindness: can you only pick one? let’s discuss

I’d like to give a shoutout to my friend from high school who kinda ruined my life. Or at least, I thought he was my friend, until I realized he’d been lying to me for the prior six months. I only realized this once we were already partners in a semester-long project, in a notoriously difficult class that involved toiling for hours in the lab after school. So basically I was stuck inside a cave with a snake. The best part? All the teachers loved him and he went to Princeton. What defines a “shitty” person? Everyone is kind of shitty in their own way, but some people are shittier than…

Does success require you to be a shitty person? - by Kasra

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