I am sometimes taken aback by how people can have a miserable day or get angry because they feel cheated by a bad meal, cold coffee, a social rebuff, or a rude reception
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Look at the true odds of the events that run your own life
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We are quick to forget just that being alive is an extraordinary piece of good luck, a rare event, a chance occurrence of monstrous proportions
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Imagine a speck of dust next to a planet a billion times the size of the earth
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The speck of dust represents the true odds in favour of your being born
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The huge planet would be the odds against it
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So stop sweating the small stuff
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Don't be like the ingrate who gets a castle as a present and is worried about the mildew in the bathroom
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Stop looking a gift horse in the mouth
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Nassim Taleb
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