beaming at me, right in the middle of all the guests. I smile back. “We put ourselves in neat labeled boxes to make sense of who we should be. We wall ourselves off from what we think we can’t do to try and protect ourselves from getting hurt. From failing. “I’ve come to realize … that what we’re really doing in those moments is putting a ceiling on our capacity to grow. To learn. Evolve. We’re holding ourselves back.
