All men know the use of the useful, but no one knows the use of the useless.

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The Tao

Two thousand five hundred years before "burnout" became a word, Lao Tzu was writing about the cost of forcing. The Tao Te Ching, 81 short verses, is the most translated text in human history after the Bible, and the cleanest counter to modern striving still on offer. This page is…

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