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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
If you commit to it, you won’t ever stop learning.
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Perspective. I used to zoom in and it would be all catastrophic, now I zoom out and get a bit of perspective.
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That your life is only in this very second.
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View profile →Flashes of hubris.
Yesterday because I was being paid to do it on stage.
Slow but trying.
I was going to a bar with friends and there was a line at the door. I’d been there before and asked the doorman to skip the line. He said, “Oh, I remember you, you were in Almost Famous, weren’t you?” And I said, “Yeah.” And he goes, “Yeah, get back in line.”
Things I wish I’d done better that day.
Giving a speech in high school at a pep rally that wasn’t going so well and the dean unplugged the mic. Apparently, I was rambling and the spirit of the cafeteria was being weighed down.
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