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kaykay
moving on to acceptance
...was going to be in for the long run, i’m not going to get yes’s right away
and part of that means i’ll have to keep searching and with every ‘no’ i receive, it refines further what i want
if getting a yes was so easy i’d recklessly pursue just about anything, right?
(self-chat log 27/04/2024)
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James Suzman • Work
Movies are about romance. Novels are about adultery. This is the stuff that falls between, the stuff we never mention, the stuff we call life and forget.
John H. Richardson • The Joy of Sex with One Woman (My Wife)
Lots of pain at work comes from being someone else. It’s only when we find or create a job in which we can truly be ourselves, that we realize how much time we actually lost or wasted trying to be (or become) someone else. And once your job is all about being you, becoming better at your job suddenly turns into becoming better at being you.... See more