Experience Is Incompressible

Patience. By nature, I’m impatient – with myself, sometimes with others. I like to move forward. I like to get things done. When there’s a problem, I prefer to fix it now . That’s true both professionally and when it comes to interpersonal relationships. When I’m trying to close a deal, I’ll find myself thinking, “What can I do to make it happen fa... See more

Accidentally wrote my most viral tweet ever. But honestly, I now think it’s wrong to go through life and not have an experience like this. The closest I got to articulating why is: “it felt like the difference between understanding something intellectually and feeling it in your bones. the journey gave me a wisdom that didn’t come from thinking but

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