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Why People Want Your Success Story But Not Your Struggle

Everyone wants to hear about my transformation but nobody wants to hear about the days when I still feel like the same broken person who ended up in prison.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Society craves redemption narratives that skip over the messy, non-linear reality of actual change.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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