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When survival traits get repackaged as entrepreneurial advantages

My startup is doing well and investors keep praising my immigrant work ethic like it is a superpower instead of trauma response from growing up with nothing.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Trauma responses born from necessity become commodified as positive attributes without acknowledgment of their painful origins.

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