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I have so much more to say on this subject, but this book is done now because I believe short books are useful.
So the conversation continues on the website:
sive.rs/u
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Your outside doesn’t need to match your inside.
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By doing that, you were actually brave.
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When I got my first guitar, the nice man at the shop put on new strings and tuned it.
A week later, I brought it back to the shop because it sounded terrible.
He told me it was just out of tune.
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I spent basically my whole life in America, and had no desire to travel or be anywhere else.
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No matter what choice you make, someone will tell you it’s wrong.
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It’s not what they need.
It’s not the choice of other people they know.
It’s not what an expert recommends.
The prosecution rests their case.
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After you privately internalize a belief, talk about it with friends.
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They might see an angle or consequence you hadn’t considered.
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Once you find a viewpoint you want to adopt, a great tool to internalize it is a private journal.
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You load the program into the computer, and it begins its calculations.
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Picture the stereotype of an explorer, hundreds of years ago, on an expedition to uncharted lands.
The explorer tries everything.
Up that river.
Down that valley.
Into every inlet.
The explorer finds a nice harbor that would make a great port, and notifies the queen.
The queen appoints a …
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