Get comfortable with discomfort. If you can tolerate more discomfort than anyone else in the room, you’re the most powerful person there. If you can stay in the awkward pause a little longerIf you can hold the eye contactIf you can ask the unspoken questionIf you can give your own answerIf you can let people […]

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One of the things I like most about reality, as far as I understand it, is how all the very big things are made of very very small things. And the closer we look at the very small things, the more we find. Even smaller, even tinier. We keep peering in further, looking for something […]

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Months ago a friend said, “Well, I don’t take anything I think very seriously.” This made me pause. Because I knew, immediately: I am the opposite. I take everything I think quite seriously. Well, okay, not everything. But warnings, alarms, and worries. Little mental flags waving. Internal reminders. Mental lists. Questions and what-ifs. I tend […]

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