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Make the problem worse

This may sound like bad advice, but sometimes when you can't get out of something, you might as well dive all the way in. 

Did you just get fired? Well, there's no solution to that, so you might as well embrace your new situation and also sell your house, plan that trip around the world, and write that book you've always wanted to write.

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Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

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