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Armenian mystic George Gurdjieff forced his wealthy spiritual followers to dig massive ditches and fill them back up

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Nothing screams 'enlightenment' quite like pointless manual labor. To teach his students how to break free from their automated, robotic lives, Gurdjieff made elite intellectuals perform brutally exhaustive and completely useless tasks just to break their egos in half.

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Armenian mystic George Gurdjieff forced his wealthy spiritual followers to dig massive ditches and fill them back up
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