When the best leader's work is done, the people say, "We did it ourselves."

Tao Te Ching · Chapter 17

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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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