“How short-lived the praiser and praised, the one who remembers and the remembered. Remembered in some corner of these parts, and even there not in the same way by all, or even by one. And the whole earth is but a mere speck.” -Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
When you seek praise, even if you get it, the praise will never live up to your imagination or expectation.
When you don’t seek praise and instead focus solely on doing the work for the work itself, you might get it anyway. And if you do, because you didn’t expect it, the praise you get will be better than you could’ve ever imagined.
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