# IF - by Rudyard Kipling

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Podcast: [Bitcoin Liberty Live](https://stenobird.com/podcast/bitcoin-liberty-live-7684112)
Published: 2026-07-12T12:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://rss.com/podcasts/bitcoin-liberty-live/2977646
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Duration seconds: 320

## Resource

"If—" by Rudyard Kipling is a famous poem offering a father's advice to his son on how to live a virtuous and resilient life, emphasizing qualities like keeping calm under pressure, trusting oneself, being patient, handling success and failure equally, and maintaining integrity and humility. It uses a series of "if" clauses to outline the conditions for becoming a mature, honorable person, concluding that if one can meet these challenges, they will possess the Earth and its riches, and more importantly, become a "Man". If you read this in the frame of Bitcoin, this poem applies to becoming a better Bitcoiner as well, and how Bitcoin changes your life.

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