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Being a jerk and having very little empathy will definitely help you becoming successful in money and glamor sense. Not sure if that will help you to become successful in your life since your jerkiness and empathy will eventually spill over to your personal life causing life to be pretty much miserable.

But you do not need to read books to learn this: actually no book will teach you this. Life will. Sadly, sometimes that it is too late.

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I don't think this is true. It's narrative nice people tell themselves to find reason in a world that has none.

Yea, they suffer sometimes from poor planning and bad luck, but more often than not, they'll get away with it. And they won't feel bad about it, not even a little bit.

Just see how some people cheat on their spouse and then get a sweet settlement and fat paycheck every month by order of the court. Maybe those people are secretly miserable but I doubt it. It's actually pretty clever if you think about it and nature rewards cleverness.

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