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However, we face a very different kind of uncertainty now in 2023. Because that pressure and uncertainty are being felt further up the food chain, by the venture capitalist and the banks that finance our clients.
VC investments have been trending downward throughout 2022 and have so far continued in 2023. And (I’m told by people who actually know this stuff!) what happens in the public market usually carries over to the private market after a few months. And the private market is where most independent consultants are feeling the pinch.
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But as the word satyagraha implies, Gandhi’s passivity was not weakness at all. It meant focusing on an ultimate goal and refusing to divert energy to unnecessary skirmishes along the way. Restraint, Gandhi believed, was one of his greatest assets. And it was born of his shyness: I have naturally formed the habit of restraining my thoughts. A thoughtless word hardly ever escaped my tongue or pen. Experience has taught me that silence is part of the spiritual discipline of a votary of truth. We find so many people impatient to talk. All this talking can hardly be said to be of any benefit to the world. It is so much waste of time. My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth.
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