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To the question, what's the most important decision we make? 

Kierkegaard explained, "The thing is to understand myself: the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die. That is what I now recognize as the most important thing."

Similarly, in Letters from a Stoic, Seneca urged Lucilius, “Adopt once and for all a single rule to live by, and make your whole life conform to it.” The wise person does not always take the same steps, but they walk a single road. [...]

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