Chapter of the Living Archive
The cost of climbing. 15 entries witnessed so far.
“I won!!I won all cases!! I am the champion!!”
“I have given the same speech about courage and leadership to thousands of people. I have never once believed it applied to me.”
“I told my entire board we were profitable for three consecutive quarters. We were not. I knew it every single time I said it. I just needed four more”
“Every performance I've given in the last four years has been a goodbye. No one in the audience knows that. They stand and applaud and I stand and rece”
“I have spent twenty years building something I no longer believe in. I keep building it because I don't know who I am without it and I'm terrified to”
“I've coached winning teams and losing teams. The losing years were when I finally learned to listen.”
“I fired my best friend because the company needed it. I told everyone it was a budget cut.”
“The standing ovation was for a speech I plagiarized from my own diary I never meant to share.”
“I have a degree I've never told anyone about. I was embarrassed it wasn't the 'right' one.”
“I advocated for my patients' voices for twenty years. I never once advocated for my own.”
“I wrote my resignation letter seventeen times. I'm still here.”
“I built something when I had nothing. That's the only resume that matters.”
“I used to shrink in rooms. Now I build them.”
“Rest is not the enemy of ambition. It is the foundation of it.”
“The version of me that people doubted is the reason I keep going.”
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