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If mentalizing is me projecting my experiences onto you, caring involves getting out of my experiences and understanding that what you need may be very different from what I would need in that situation. This is hard. The world is full of people who are nice; there are many fewer who are effectively kind.
How to Know a Person
David Brooks
While still a teenager, he was made caretaker of the estate's mules and oxen-a post usually held by a white man.
Louverture seized this rare opportunity to educate himself in his free time and to read through his master's library, including Julius Caesar's Commentaries and Abbé Raynal's Histoire des deux Indes, or History of two Indies,
What You Do Is Who You Are
Ben Horowitz
Whenever I get in this situation, I simply stay in contact with the buyer during due diligence, just letting them know that I am interested should the deal fall apart in due diligence. If you miss out on an opportunity because of another buyer, just be patient. There are plenty of businesses out there and another one that fits your criteria will arise.
Buy Then Build
Walker Deibel
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