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Why Do We Fear Being Ordinary? [Carl Richards]

The Examined Life

CHAPTER

The Importance of Being Selfless

The people that I feel like when I'm in their presence, I walk away. It takes me about three minutes to unwind that and go. Oh my gosh, that person's a wizard. You know, hey, you know, ordinary that the fact that there are, I forget exactly how you said it, but the like showing up in an ordinary way is what makes you extraordinary. And so who is it in your life that is quietly, extraordinary? And and might love to just that small gesture of recognition, of love, of being, enabling them to feel seen,. How special would that be for everyone? Yeah, it's amazing.

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