Overcoming the Need to Be Exceptional - The School Of Life
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Overcoming the Need to Be Exceptional - The School Of Life
You see, from a young age you’ve been sold a lie. That lie is that you have to be good at everything in order to be ‘good enough’. When you were at school and getting that report card, where was the focus: on the subjects you were great at or the ones that ‘need work’? If you got private tuition was it for subjects at which you were amazing or the
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