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Stacey Abrams on Leveling up and Serving the Common Good

The Daily Stoic

CHAPTER

How Do You Solve for the Poison That Will Be in Your Glass?

I call myself an ameliorist, which is not a term of art that actually exists in nature. But essentially it means to try to mitigate harm. My very crass description is, i think the glass is half full. It's just probably poisoned. And my job is to find the antidote. I'm neither opoptimistic nor pessimistic. I'm just very determined, and that helps me keep the faith.

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