Wendelin Van DraanenIt's easy to look back and see it, and it's easy to give the advice. But the sad fact is, most people don't look beneath the surface until it's too late.
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What people see when they look back at the past is often not even what was there all along. We make mistakes and make choices based on what we see, but we never think about what is really going on underneath. We often fail to think about things that may be a bigger part of a situation than we realize. You can’t always understand why a situation happened the way it did, but you can learn from it and move forward.
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