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I can handle it. A real man always can.
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I can handle it. A real man always can.

Stephen King, author

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[…] I can handle it. A real man always can.

-Stephen King, author, “On Writing”

The pressures we put on ourselves are inherently unrealistic. If they were realistic, we’d already be performing that way, doing that thing.

Goals, similarly, are inherently unachievable. If they could be achieved, why wouldn’t we have completed them already?

We find ourselves …

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