A lot of people don’t heal, and it manifests in a lot of different ways throughout their lives, ” she said once. “Because when trauma doesn’t get to work itself through your system, your system idles at a heightened state, and so getting more really intense input calms your system down.” Which is why, Meredith said, “A lot of folks who’ve survived trauma end up being really calm in crisis and freaking out in everyday life. Mac McClelland
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  2. If you just work on stuff that you like and you’re passionate about, you don’t have to have a master plan with how things will play out.

  3. I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.

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  5. My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There's a lot of that in Silicon Valley.

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