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Today's guest curator is @paradigmprospect.

Knowledge is power! Sure, it can lead to great overindulgence on the rational level, trying to find out every little detail about a particular circumstance until we become overloaded with trivial bits of information and have to stop.

However, when knowledge is being presented by people who put in the work to research, to articulate and to streamline their thoughts we can hugely benefit from their gifts to the world.

In the spirit of relaying empowering information to the readers of The Daily Sneak it is @paradigmprospect's pleasure today to showcase these 5 Steemians who have collected insights into the topics that move them so that we may learn from and consider their takes on craftsmanship, health, life, society and the nature of reality.

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The Sneaked Selections

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Steembay Auction - Handcrafted tooled leather iPhone 7 snap on phone cases from The Armadillo Leather Shop

@Armadilloman's level of craftsmanship never seizes to amaze me and it's high time I featured this man's gift to the world again in The Daily Sneak.

I do not own a smartphone but if I did I would heavily consider dropping my plans for purchasing any mundane thing in the next weeks and rather get some handmade quality casing for my phone.

Armadilloman has a broad selection of Steem & Steampunk related apparel and even does auctions on Steemit using Steem's own cryptos...

And wow, his level of devotion to his craft really shows! I mean just look at this thing!

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Raw Cacao - Food of the Gods

Chocolate has to be one of the most cherished products in contemporary society - pretty much everyone has their favorite variety or likes to enjoy the taste of chocolate now and then for the right occasion.

But as with so many other things, the item we generally call "chocolate" has little to do with the original plant behind it - the anciently revered cacao bean.

You could try to gather all sorts of information on chocolate by yourself, but you could also just check out @enjoyinglife's amazing article for all sorts of trivial and non-trivial cacao-related information. And best of all... he has included some awesome recipes if you want to take it a step further and enjoy chocolate in a way that doesn't offend your soul ;)

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Not Everyone can be helped

Many of us like to help other people whenever we can, but maybe you are one of those people who can't seem to find the right degree when helping others.

As @josefpius has put it, some people don't want to be helped, and often times even and especially our best intentions will only make the matter worse. Not only for the individual we are trying to help, but also for ourselves when we give more than we are able to compensate in good conscience.

If you have a "helper's complex" and regularly find yourself in trouble because you have put your own needs on lower priority than the needs of someone else you are trying to help out, this article might bring you back to center and may help you reconsider what kinds of help are actually helpful, and what kinds of help are just creating more of a deprived situation for yourself where you are really not helping at all.

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Conclusion

Amazing commentary and selections from @paradigmprospect. For submitting these excellent articles and commentary, @paradigmprospect earns 3 SBD.

Each of these highlighted articles receives full upvotes and resteems from @thedailysneak. In addition, @thedailysneak sponsors featured writers for Steem Basic Income!

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