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Don't Trust Yourself

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A friend going back to school for counseling told me something this morning that's been rattling around my head today. Don't trust yourself.

Sounds like the opposite of everything I usually talk about. But he's onto something. We all carry a blind spot, a bias that runs negative, and if we're not careful, fierce encouragement turns into fiercely trusting the worst voice in the room. Or even that subtle one that runs the script.

I get into the tractor beam that pulls people back into old self-talk after a great week. The IT leader who told me she's done climbing the corp…

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