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 *{{shitmaxim|It takes being let down to appreciate those who lift you up. Be a lifter}} — or, be the one who lets people down and have an equal impact.
 *{{shitmaxim|Believe this: You are exquisite. You are exceptional. You are limitless.}} — or, better still, ''don’t'' believe it since, if you are seeking spiritual guidance from [[LinkedIn]] it almost certainly isn’t true — at least, not in a good way. Even if it might be, there’s much less scope for injury and disappointment if you proceed by assuming it isn’t.
-*{{Shitmaxim|We will all have more leisure time in the future}} — this isn't [[LinkedIn]] [[yogababble]] so much as delusional conventional wisdom from the thought leaders of the day. Examples are {{author|Daniel Susskind}} in his fantastical {{br|A World Without Work}} and {{author|David Goodhart}} in his otherwise excellent {{br|Head Hand Heart}}. The idea that robots and artificial intelligence will entirely supplant the need for human labour assumes that a manual activity which can be entirely and cheaply automated will nonetheless hold its value, that an economy to which the majority of participants do not what contribute will still function more or less as normal, and that the economy not only can be fully determined but has been: that our current polity is in some kind of fully taxonomised, Taylorised final state in which no new activities or work categories can emerge, and all that do currently exist can be more effectively carried out by machine. These three assumptions being transparently absurd, this gets the [[Yngwie Malmsteen paradox]] 180° back to front. increasing automation will create more risk, not less semi-colon will generate more complexity not less, and and will lead to more catastrophe, not less. We will all be kept busy.
+*{{Shitmaxim|We will all have more leisure time in the future}} — this isn’t [[LinkedIn]] [[yogababble]] so much as delusional conventional wisdom from the [[thought leader]]s of the day.
+*{{Shitmaxim|Not everybody is a game-changer, but everybody can make a game-changing impact and contribution}}: another one from the “by definition, false” collection.
+*{{Shitmaxim|Keep going}}:  ''if you stick at it, you will eventually get exactly where you are meant to be''— Which is fine, as long as that isn't jail, penury, insolvency, ignominy, public humiliation, community service, or the life-long pursuit of the sort of [[bullshit job|tedious employment]] that will drive you to seek wisdom from randoms on [[LinkedIn]].
+*{{Shitmaxim|Everyone is fighting a battle you know nothing about}}: If only people would belt up about their personal problems every now and then, so this were occasionally ''true''.