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143: The Messy Middle by Scott Belsky

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Love Is Something More Stern and Striking Than Pure Kindness

A lot of the pain that people feel going through the messy middle really is just improper expectation setting. You start something and you expect it to be smooth sailing. When it doesn't go according to plan, you have a choice to either keep going or say, this isn't what i signed up for and quit. So even if this messy middle is something that's painful and you really don't want to do it and you want to skip it, a lot of times it's that middle part that is what makes that final success rit. And when you're talking about adversity and pushing through things, if you view that as, i must be on the wrong path,. The fact that this

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