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What does it mean?
Live in a way that brings joy to others so they mourn your loss.
In plain terms
Be a good person so people miss you when you die.
What can you take from it?
Leave the world better than you found it.

Where it applies

  • career choices
  • community service
  • personal conduct

Putting it to work

  • charity
  • kindness
  • leadership

Questions to consider

  • Will people celebrate your birth?
  • What will they say at your funeral?

Another view

Judging life by others' reactions can be external.

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