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Barn Lamborghinis and Rings in Rivers — Value, Place

Lucas A. Davidson
2 min readJan 14, 2025

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Daily Meditation 1,045–1/14/2025

If you have a brand new Lambo — say, a lovely deep purple color — and you plunk it in a barn where it collects dust, does its value change?

How about a beautiful wedding ring. Pure gold, big honkin’ 3 carat diamond…you chuck it in the river, where it’s slowly sunk into the mud and mire.

Or a sapphire mine you own. You’ve got a 100 acre mine known for sapphires but you do nothing with it.

It’s just a hot engine in a sweet chassis dust collector.
It’s just another pebble in the stream.
It’s just a random cave.

You may, in fact, have worth, regardless of who you are or what your skills are, but the where you are/who you are with determines if that worth goes anywhere.

You could be a “Lamborghini” of intelligence — 2 PhDs, raised by family on a farm so you know how to fix everything, etc., but if you’re pushing carts at Walmart or working for an evil regime who is hanging dissidents…
Is your “Lambo” really worth anything?

You see what I’m saying?

Be aware of your worth. And I don’t mean in the “strong, independent woman who ain’t need no man” sense of “worth” which is…

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Lucas A. Davidson
Lucas A. Davidson

Written by Lucas A. Davidson

Daily philosophical meditations on Eudaimonia. These are distillations from the forthcoming book on the topic. Comments or jobs: lucas@multistatewide.com

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