Maybe that’s what this book’s secret really is; it gives us permission to daydream about our futures in a way most of us don’t do after the age of five, when we would announce with no self-consciousness that we wanted to be astronauts or ballerinas or ambulance drivers. It stops us from making excuses and hiding behind so-called ‘reality’, something we start to do as soon as we hit our first teenage disappointments. It was actually scary to dream big because it meant opening yourself up to disappointment when/if your dreams didn’t become reality. But it felt good to become much clearer on what
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