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The “Wheat Principle”: Finding “Good Enough” in Love, Career, and Life
Three disciples asked Socrates: “How can we find an ideal life partner?” Socrates asked each of them to pick the largest ear of wheat in the wheat field, but they could not go back and could only pick one. The first two disciples either regretted picking the wheat ears too early, or were dejected because they hesitated and returned empty-handed. When it was the third disciple’s turn, he divided the wheat field into three sections, divided the wheat ears in the first section into large, medium and small categories for comparison, and then selected a relatively larger one in the second section of wheat field. After that, I stopped looking…