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Yeah these people exist. But even these people have something that will drive them.

I'm not saying that you have to find the spark or that even everyone has the ability to find it. Sometimes, the challenge is so great that it's just not worth it or beyond your abilities.

But it's still there for everyone. If you're really really good, you can find out what it is for most people and trigger it.




>Sometimes, the challenge is so great that it's just not worth it or beyond your abilities.

Yeahhh. Sometimes, as you try ever harder to enable someone to succeed, you eventually realize you're becoming their therapist. Sometimes, you realize that enabling this one person to succeed would involve neglecting everyone else. Sometimes the necessary acceptance, equanimity, and nurturing are of such an absurd degree that it looks like special treatment, or indulgence, to any third party.




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