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A viable alternative to "Hope for the Flowers" ?

From Orbiting the Giant Hairball : A Corporate Fool’s Guide to Surviving with Grace If we were to think of waterskiing as a metaphor for leading and following, the person at the wheel, in the boat, dry, would represent the leader. And the skier in the water, wet, would be the follower. Wherever the leader goes, the follower goes. If, for reaso...

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Alain de Botton in "Status Anxiety"

Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement: being polite, succeeding at school and later, acquiring rank and prestige. Such efforts may attract the interest of others, but the underlying emotional craving may not be so much to dazzle because of our deeds as to recapture the tenor of the bountiful, indiscriminate petting we r...

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