Susan Cain on Bittersweet, Quiet and Writing
Elevate with Robert Glazer
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The Pressure to Be Positive
The book tells a lot of stuff I've been reading and writing about lately but there's the pressure to be positive. It is you have one thing less than an A on your transcript and cross these schools off your list it just seems like a terrible standard, not actually encouraging people to take risk and be vulnerable right? So what is the anecdote for this pressure to be perfect because it occurs to me that some of the most successful people who are willing to like try and fail and their failures were celebrated. Which takes more than 160 characters too right.
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