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“Ever notice how happy kids don’t write in their diaries very much? They don’t have to. Life’s too fun. Diaries are for when life isn’t fun. They’re for figuring what went wrong.“
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When I worked at Kinkos a few years ago, I worked with a guy named Dave.  Like many Kinkoids, Dave was a graphic artist who worked there to make ends meet due to the unpredictable cash flow one receives from freelance work.  One day in the break room I saw Dave writing in a spiral notebook and I asked him, “Dave, why do you keep a journal?”  His hand stopped writing and his head lifted as if and idea had somehow made it lighter.  After a brief pause, he turned and told me,

“I keep a journal so that I don’t make the same mistake twice.”

This has always stuck with me.