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Sacrifice Is Overrated

Harvard Business Review

Thomas Merton, the famous Trappist monk and Catholic scribe wrote, "A monk is a man who has given up everything in order to possess everything. They've just figured out that doing for others delivers a better rate of return to self than a Maserati. First, financial sacrifice and serving the greater good are often not correlated.

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