becoming yourself is a process of reduction - by Isabel

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saying no as the ultimate unlock

It’s always funny to me when something that I have spent years trying to distill is captured perfectly by a simple cliché that I probably heard for the first time when I was ten years old. That’s the thing about clichés: as numb as we are to them, we always find our way back to their truths after learning their lessons the hard way. The cliché I’m referring to in this case is the idea that “less is more.” We all know it to be true on some level, and maybe we’ve even pretended to be a minimalist for five minutes as we do our spring cleaning, but how many of us viscerally understand this…

becoming yourself is a process of reduction - by Isabel

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