started with some management classes. No class will give you all the answers, but any class is better than nothing. And then I went way beyond the basic classes you’ll take at a big company—I went down the rabbit hole. I started reading management books and realized that a great deal of management comes down to how you manage your own fears and anxieties. That led me to psychology books. And that led me to therapy. And yoga. I started both in 1995, long before either was widely accepted. It wasn’t because I was a crazy person or because becoming a manager was turning me into one. I did therapy
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