When a date asks if you are a "dog person" or a "cat person," they aren't making small talk. They are subconsciously telling you how they view love, control, and dependency.

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"We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one."

At 28, I swam out to save a friend and found myself in a riptide. For 30 minutes, I fought the ocean with my ego. I believed mastery was about forcing my will upon the world. The ocean taught me otherwise.

This is the story of the 40 minutes that killed the boy and birthed the man. The lesson is simple: Reality does not negotiate. You either learn to yield, or you drown.

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She had a tattoo on her arm that read "No Regrets." Ironically, it was the only tattoo she wanted to remove.

I recently ended a relationship with a 24-year-old Eastern European model. On paper, it was a dream. In reality, it was a case study in poor judgment. From swimming toward sharks in open water to playing "marimbas" on stalactites in a pitch-black cave with a dying phone, her life was a series of uncalculated risks.

This is a breakdown of that chaos, and an argument for why we must apply business logic to our personal lives. In business, a bad asset is liquidated. In dating, we tend to subsidize the liability.

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