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 Good morning 🌄 #nostr

I have a short story for you to share. As I have always loved maths, it is not a coincidence that now I work with data and #Bitcoin. Moreover, if you ask me, I don't believe in coincidences 😉

So here's a story - I didn’t create it, but I enjoyed reading it and hope it gives you something to think about too.

One day, a mathematics professor wrote the number 1 on the board and, looking at his students, explained: "1 represents your humanness. The most essential quality in life."

Then he added a 0 next to the 1 and said: "This represents your achievements, which, together with humanness, increase your value tenfold."

Next, he added another 0 and said: "This is experience, which makes a person a hundred times more valuable."

He continued adding more zeros - attentiveness, honesty, love... "Each zero added elevates a person tenfold," the professor said.

Suddenly, he erased the 1 at the beginning, and all that was left on the board were worthless, meaningless zeros.

Then the professor said: "If you don't have HUMANNESS, everything else is worthless without it."

Have a great weekend plebs and plebesses!

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