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Question of the Day: What do you hate about mankind?

Thought of the Day: I love mankind; it's people I can't stand. -Charles M. Schulz

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Good Morning Reader,

It’s easy to love humanity until…

Humanity is an easy thing to admire from a distance. Loving the people we encounter every day is where the real work begins.

Today’s Thought of the Day reflects on a line from Charles M. Schulz that has made people smile for decades because it feels uncomfortably true.

Read: It’s Easier to Love Humanity Than People

Then today’s Question of the Day asks something a little more uncomfortable:

What do you hate about mankind?

Not what annoys you. What genuinely disappoints you about us as human beings?

Read and join the conversation: What Do You Hate About Mankind?

Thanks for starting your day here.

Stay Golden, Ken

Additional subject line ideas:

  • What people make difficult
  • We can do better than this
  • One quote. One uncomfortable question.
  • Why is kindness so hard?
  • Humanity is easy. People are harder.

Stay Golden,
Ken


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