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I would invert the title a bit:

The quality of your life strongly depends on how many bad people you manage to avoid.

People are mostly OK and reasonable to deal with. Some super duper partner will not increase quality of your life 10 times. There is still work, kids and so on.

But bad partner or friend can easily make your life 10x worse, or even put you in jail.

> there are Diminishers and there are Illuminators.

Self-help bs. Normal people are too busy with their lives and paying bills , and will not do some monkey dance to "illuminate" your path.



> Self-help bs. Normal people are too busy with their lives and paying bills , and will not do some monkey dance to "illuminate" your path.

i believe i extract the best out of most people i choose to spend time on. i find fulfillment in the happiness of others. downsides are i can occasionally trap myself in enablement and advocacy.

i have been described as a Light person




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