If i would go back in time and give myself one piece of advice as undergradute, it would be take pride in your decisions and hardwork, but not in your gifts.

如果时光倒流,我能为本科时期的我,提个建议的话,我会说，为自己作出的决定和勤奋工作，而不是自己的天赋感到骄傲。

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Is it because some people have a kind of built in sense of thumos, that wonderful Platonic term, pride, courage, love of risk that no society, ? not even a Hobbesian one, can do without?

是因为有一种,内在的激情，是柏拉图的术语，傲骄，勇敢，爱冒险，没有一个社会，甚至霍布斯的社会能没有这些？

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