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Japanese Daruma dolls are sold with blank eyes to set goals

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Why buy a normal toy when you can purchase a judgmental wooden sphere that stares at you until you accomplish your dreams? Daruma dolls are intentionally sold without pupils; you paint one eye when you set a goal, and the doll sits there, half-blind and silently shaming you, until you finish the task and paint the other eye.

Japanese Daruma dolls are sold with blank eyes to set goals
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