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I Got Very Good at Talking Myself Into Peace
I kept a partnership alive for a year while it quietly ruined that year, and I described it to everyone as a lesson in patience.
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The Watching
I gave an instruction in a meeting. Not a request and not a suggestion. An instruction, in an ordinary voice, about something that had to be done by Thursday.
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The People Who Went Quiet
It is somebody's birthday and the table is full. Someone asks how the work is going, so I answer. Two sentences, nothing long.
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The Eleven Minutes
I once sat in my car for eleven minutes before walking into a meeting where I had to tell my team something I wasn't sure about myself.
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