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SCHMUCKS OF THE WORLD UNITE

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SCHMUCKS OF THE WORLD UNITE

To my fellow low achievers...

Lee Kern
May 30, 2022
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SCHMUCKS OF THE WORLD UNITE

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We are living in the middle of a self-esteem epidemic.

Most of us are down on ourselves.

Thinking we don’t match up.

To make it worse - everywhere we look we are surrounded by images of high-achievers – people who’ve gone on to do great things and who have praise heaped upon them.

But I actually think we’ve got it upside down the way we venerate the people who do great things in society.

It’s actually us – the shit people – who deserve a pat on the back. We’re the ones muddling on through life with our shoddy DNA. We’re the ones getting up in the morning when – let’s be honest – for a lot of us there’s not much of a point.

But we do it anyway. We brush our teeth. We change out of our pyjamas. We eat toast. We’re the ones who deserve some praise.

And what of the so-called “geniuses” who walk among us?

What are

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