What It Takes to Learn

Couldn’t learning just be easy?

Likely not.

But one method does follow the “simple but hard to master” refrain…

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In therapy, there comes a point where there is a deep struggle, a sense that you don’t know if you can go forward. Something is too frightening, too shameful, too awful to face.

In stories, there comes a point where the protagonist faces something about themselves, where they realize that what they thought they wanted or needed wasn’t what they truly needed. To move forward, they...