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35 Essential Life Lessons Everyone Should Learn Early on in Life — OMAR ITANI

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Change the inside, and the outside falls into place. Here are 35 essential, powerful, and important life lessons that you should learn early on in life. Read them, contemplate them, and apply them. And as you do, be mindful of the fact that change takes time, so allow yourself all the time you need

35 Essential Life Lessons Everyone Should Learn Early on in Life Ever since I was a kid, I’ve had this dream of changing the world, but growing up, I had no idea how—let alone what I wanted to do with my life. So I tried different things: I studied abroad, I worked at Google, I backpacked for lengths at a time, I launched my own online business. I kept on looking outward, never truly feeling any sense of contentment or peace, until I arrived at these words by the 13th-century poet, Rumi: “Yesterday I was clever so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise so I am changing myself.” That’s p

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