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Starting Over When You Don't Know What You're Starting
The morning I left clinical work for good, I stood at the kitchen counter with a full cup of coffee, a full day, and a paper folder I had labeled NEXT in my own handwriting. I opened it. It was empty. I had named the folder before I had a single thing to put in it.
This episode is about that morning, and the particular stuckness of standing at the start of something with no idea what the something is. It is also about the lie folded into the phrase “starting over,” and why the page is never as blank as it looks.
I talk about the first grant I ever wrote, which I did not write because I had…
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