Rubbish maxims

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A love letter to LinkedIn, thought for the day, life coaches and motivation gurus everywhere, this is a collection of airheaded aphorisms that sound profound but ooze vacuity. This is not just when that home insurance lawyer tags impenetrable Kierkegaard aphorisms with #quotestoliveby - I mean how does one live by “life expresses the result of our dominant thoughts?” — what does it even mean, and if it does mean something, won’t it just happen automatically? — but something in more wishful denial of how significance the world in general, and Denise in accounts in particular, attaches to your problems.

• Be the best version of yourself
• Your value does not decrease based on someone else’s inability to see your worth
• You do not inspire people by showing them how amazing you are, but by showing them how amazing they are
• Blowing out someone else’s candle won’t make yours burn any brighter
• Every boss started out as a worker
• Every journey starts with one step
• We rise by lifting others
• it takes being let down to appreciate those who lift you up. Being a lifter but in this logic it is equally valuable being a putter-downer.
• Believe this: You are exquisite. You are exceptional. You are limitless.