Everywhere you look, people are giving excuses for not pursuing what they were born to do. Some say they are “a work in progress,” while others shrug with indifference, saying they’re still trying to figure out what they want to be when they grow up. Such phrases sound harmless, but they are anything but. If we’re honest, a lot of us feel stuck, ai

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Our culture defines “success” as rising through bureaucracies, so these people didn’t understand why they’d suddenly gone from high performance to crashing and burning. But from my perspective, these “inexplicable” failures made obvious sense: Edgar loved literature, not running a magazine. Chloe loved being out in the woods alone, not sitting arou

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