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Managing expectations is crucial to your continued success.

Quantified, efficient selves—the good news is: we’ve been there before. The original Romantic Movement—toward the end of the eighteenth century and into the nineteenth—emerged in response to the Industrial Revolution and the Enlightenment.

As Parker Palmer said in an interview with Bill Moyers, “reality won’t let you down.”9 You’ll be grounded, steady, and realistic.

In visiting over 50 restaurants, no one had a single strategy to retain and upsell us. They just “hoped” we liked our cheap meal so much that we came back on our own.

It’s important to acknowledge how long it takes—not what we hope, or expect, or wish, or imagine it takes, but how long it actually takes. We need to get comfortable with reality as it is,

To face the storm you must learn to respond to it rather than react to it.

You might be wary of what lurks in your own shadows, of what you might discover in the not so pleasant parts of your person.

Female Mid-fifties Married with kids Living in a big city Upper-middle-class professional Well-educated, probably holding an advanced degree Politically liberal-leaning Spiritually inclined, regardless of religious affiliation