If what you love to do happens to be very lucrative, then you should totally do it.

If what you enjoy doesn't pay well, then find something else to enjoy.
If your opinions are popular, then that's fantastic.

If they're unpopular, then learn how to lie.
(I don't abide by this one, but I'm too far gone already and there's no benefit to backpedalling)
If the woman/man you love is suitable wife/husband material, then that's fantastic, get married live happily together.

If they're not, then learn how to press ctrl+z on it and start again.
(So many people screw this up it's not even funny. Young people have ridiculous ideas about what kind of relationships are healthy and appropriate, including me when I was young)
I'm not a nihilist.

I just think that one of the best applications of #rationality with the highest leverage is understanding when you are breaking a foundational rule of reality - a social or economic equivalent of defying gravity - and not doing that.
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