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Key takeaways from Bruce Lee’s Never Before Revealed Letters to Himself About Authenticity, Personal Development, and the Measure of Success

“Where some people have a self, most people have a void, because they are too busy in wasting their vital creative energy… actualizing a concept of what they should be like rather than …

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the greatest help is self-help” — and that personal authenticity is the object of life and the only real measure of success.

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