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  • Letting the Old Version of You Die

    There’s a line from the movie Rocketman that stopped me in my tracks the first time I heard it. A musician named Wilson looks at a young, unsure Elton John and says, “You’ve got to kill the person you were born to be in order to become the person you want to be.”

  • The Beauty of Saying “No.”

    I’ve always been the kind of person who wants to help. If someone needs advice, I’ll stay up late to give it. If a friend has a crisis, I’ll drop everything to help. It’s part empathy, part people-pleasing, and part fear that if I say no, I’ll disappoint someone.