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Week 32: Ask for What You Want

Week 32: Ask for What You Want

Do what others won't, get what they can't

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Aug 13, 2023
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If there’s one thing there’s a shortage of in the developed world right now, it’s courage. We’ve had it so easy for so long that we believe we should be accommodated all the time, that people should basically know what we want without us even having to express it. And when we don’t get it? We get resentful. We make poor assumptions about people and we assume bad intentions.

All of this because we can’t simply ask for what we want…

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