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I was faking confidence. But the horse wasn’t buying it. (opens the original)
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“Come on. Let’s go.”I pulled on the lead.Nothing.The horse stood exactly where he was.I tried again, this time attempting to project a little more authority. We had been told that horses respond to clarity, confidence and decisiveness, so I was trying very hard to be all three.Except I wasn’t actually feeling particularly confident or decisive.I was definitely pretending to be.And the horse wasn’t fooled.A few days ago, I participated in a workshop called Cavalli e Persone: Fiducia e Parità — Ho
How Much of My Life Am I Postponing Until My Life Gets Better? (opens the original)
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For the past few years, I’ve felt stuck.The kind of stuck where you keep trying to figure out what needs fixing—your career, your routine, your mindset, your Italian—and somehow all that figuring out leaves you even more exhausted.And somewhere along the way, I started believing that creativity belonged on the other side of all of this.First, get unstuck.Then create.First, get out of survival mode.Then play.First, figure your life out.Then you can enjoy it.It sounds reasonable enough.Except late
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