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Citizening at The Source (Sam Rader)

How To Citizen with Baratunde

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The Power of Will

We need to be able to feel that we can control things and not everything. It's got to be that optimal frustration, like, oh, I don't get to control absolutely everything. And also the optimal indulgence of, but I do get to decide what I wear to school,. Not a hero costume, not a superhero costume. But, you know, I can wear any of my shorts or any of my tops, right? So that we need to feeling that we have some say, some voice, some choice, some agency. Agency power, but not despotic agency, not control over absolutely everything where our tantrums can control our entire family.

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