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Imagine you are dying and have no material wealth. You are allowed to pass on one or two pieces of thoughtful and useful advice to your young adult children. That is the only inheritance you can leave behind — thoughtful advice that they will understand and apply in their lives. What would that advice be?”

Imagine you are dying and have no material wealth. You are allowed to pass on one or two pieces of thoughtful and useful advice to your young adult children. That is the only inheritance you can leave behind — thoughtful advice that they will understand and apply in their lives. What would that advice be?”

November 27, 2016 Nate

— Lawrence Endersen from Pebbles of Perception

Imagine you are dying and have no material wealth. You are allowed to pass on one or two pieces of thoughtful and useful advice to your young adult children. That is the only inheritance you can leave behind — thoughtful advice that they will understand and apply in their lives. What would that advice be?”


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