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In China, things often do circle back to the ancestral obsession with saving face. Everyone from the bottom up to the top leaders save face if there’s no written record to refer back to.
Most supplement brands lead with clinical claims. Grüns deliberately chose a different approach. The company conducted studies and invested in formulation rigor, but its marketing leaned into lifestyle rather than science.
The Food Billionaire • GRÜNS: Chad Janis just made the fastest $1B exit in CPG history
If you want to be loved, find something you love. People can sense it when you have something you’re dedicated to. No one wants the burden of being the answer to your dissatisfication.
“There is nothing either good or bad,” as Shakespeare wrote in Hamlet, “but thinking makes it so.
Pico Iyer • The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere (TED Books)
When we make space for the unseen dynamics within relationship, we welcome relational nothingness. We acknowledge that we might not need to know what is the “problem” to ask, what is truly present here?
If one is told constantly that the epitome of personal “empowerment” and self-actualization is precisely that one should never sacrifice anything of the self and its desires—to always prioritize “finding yourself,” “staying true to yourself,” and maximizing autonomy—then the formation of deeper relationships is made effectively impossible.