YOU CAN GET WHAT YOU WANT OR YOU CAN JUST GET OLD

on leaving, safety, confidence, tradeoffs, abundance, etc

the greatest compliment i’ve ever received came from my friend anson at the start of this year. i’d mentioned how i mistakenly thought a former employer hated me because of an escalating series of miscommunications, and then she replied i think this will keep happening to vincent, not because of miscommunication, but because he doesn’t realize how much people like him it wasn’t until recently that i figured out many of my issues are self-imposed and come from underestimating my own value. undervaluing yourself doesn’t sound so bad in theory but in practice it creates problems such as:…

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