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Perhaps that just proves that the best life advice doesn't really change much? While reading Sam's list I didn't find much that I haven't heard before.

What is new and valuable to me is the combination of advice. While each individual piece of advice might not be new or unique it is still interesting to see what Sam chose to include.

If nothing else it serves as a reminder from a person you may want to learn from. That can be valuable as well particularly because people seem to make the mistake of forgetting important things in life "by default"[1]

[1]http://www.paulgraham.com/todo.html