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Don't build a religion from your recurring flaws and failures.

Heather Havrilesky
Nov 15, 2021
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Evening Star No. III (1917) by Georgia O’Keeffe

Whenever you experience a surge of understanding or insight about who you are and how you operate, it can be tempting to use that knowledge against yourself. It’s the most human of impulses, to take what you don’t have and build an agitating story from it, casting yourself as the tragic hero who fails time …

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