A Little Happier: Why the Holy Man Didn’t Tell a Boy to Stop Eating Candy
Update: 2025-12-15
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A familiar story about Gandhi is apocryphal, but nevertheless illustrates one of my Secrets of Adulthood: If we’re trying to encourage or enforce a particular behavior, we should be willing to observe that behavior ourselves.
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