"Cultivate Well-roundedness" from JamesBaquet.com
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It seems the happiest people I know can whoop it up with friends on Saturday night and attend church with great conviction on Sunday.
They can chat with equal amiability with college professors and construction workers, with police officers and prostitutes, with ministers and mine workers.
They can have fun in a disco or on a mountain trail, can be at peace in traffic or in tranquility.
They are all things to all people.
They are, as the Tao recommends, as soft and yielding as water, yet, as it also says, their strength has no equal.
Anyone who sounds one note might not fit the bill.
And yet, in all these situations, happy people are always themselves, never sacrificing who they are for the sake of others.
They contain multitudes.
So that is the final Secret. Look back over the other 364, and find out what sides of yourself might need development. If you only have one tune, master some more. If you only have one way to deal with adversity, learn some others. If you only have one friend, make more!
And, for the last time: You'll be happier.
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