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Chris Matakas

"Your job as a young adult is to become as valuable to the marketplace as you can. Your job as a human is to do so without working a day in your life."

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"Your job as a young adult is to become as valuable to the marketplace as you can. Your job as a human is to do so without working a day in your life."

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Chris Matakas
"The most obvious, most absurdly recognizable phenomena in day-to-day life often become the hardest to remain consciously aware of."

Mindfulness

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Chris Matakas
"Our social contract is becoming an exchange of free thought for mindless stimuli."

Society

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Chris Matakas
"The quality of your life is directly proportional to the positive effect you have on others' lives."

Life

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Chris Matakas
"For the sincere student, it mustn't be enough to simply understand Jiu Jitsu. We must seek to understand ourselves."

Self-Growth

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Chris Matakas
"I do not begin to think that I could possibly understand its inner-workings and the deepest truths of the cosmos with the 28 years that I have lived in Central New Jersey of the United States of America."

Knowledge

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Chris Matakas
"Deep down I believe each of us is a well-spring of understanding and wisdom, but we simply never allow the space or time for this understanding to rise to the level of conscious thought."

Wisdom

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Chris Matakas
"To know our values is to have a foundation on which to build a great life. Our environment and education will play a large part in influencing our formulation of this world view, but is ultimately ourselves that have the final say. We must decide what we value, and then live accordingly. After all, in the eyes of the world we could achieve great success, but if our actions do not coincide with what we ourselves truly deem worthy, we will find no peace."

Philosophy

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Chris Matakas
"Thoreau and Huxley calmly state what I have spent years trying to articulate, and never found the words for doing so. To read the words of these great men is to read the highest expression of my very self which is inexpressible due to the shortcomings of my particular nature."

Creativity

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Chris Matakas
"The secular world often finds its constituents disenfranchised and solitary as it has spent a great deal of time debating the religious community while failing to build a true community of its own."

Society

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Chris Matakas
"Jiu Jitsu provides a place of fellowship that, unfortunately, our society has largely failed to create."

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Aberjhani

"Joblessness brings you face to face with destiny."

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Personal Development

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Aberjhani

"The purpose of employment is not to make money."

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Aberjhani

"Joblessness gives you time to grow."

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Aberjhani

"Life experience is the new work experience."

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Aberjhani

"Having a job is being busy."

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Aberjhani

"Believe it or not, I worked four summers in college as a sports writer covering baseball for a parks and rec department in Bayonne, N.J."

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Aberjhani

"I earned a mater's degree in journalism and took the first job offered, as a sports writer. Instead of chasing my own fame, I wrote about famous athletes chasing theirs."

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Aberjhani

"I should never have been happy in any profession that did not call forth the highest intellectual strain, and yet keep me in good warm contact with my neighbors. There is nothing like the medical profession for that: one can have the exclusive scientific life that touches the distance and befriend the old fogie in the parish too."

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Aberjhani

"When you're under employment, you are not working in the area of your calling but rather helping to fulfill your employer's."

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Aberjhani

"Your professional experience can strengthen your resume, increase your earning potential, prove dependability, instill trust, and open new doors of opportunity which would remain closed otherwise."

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