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You Won’t Find Your People Until You’ve Been Alone First
Venturing off into new knowledge—whether it’s a PhD, R&D, or building something new—comes with a strange, painful truth: you need a community, but you won’t know who that community is until after you’ve been completely alone.
You have to feel lost. You have to not know what you’re doing. You have to go through hard knocks, pain, and moments where you say, “What the hell, why is this happening?” And only then—when you’ve got your own story, your own struggle—do the right people start to show up. People who say, “That’s me. I’ve been there.”
You don’t find community first. You build it after…
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