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Their wordsYou don't have to overcome your fear in order to do things that are hard or which frighten you. You can do them scared.
Their wordsIt is not really a test of courage, or if it is, maybe all tests of courage are really tests of imagination, a test that asks, Can you imagine a world beyond this?
Our reading
The story we tell about a life is not the life itself; life exists only in the present moment.
Mental modelThe map is not the territory
Their wordsThe story of a life is not the life itself. Life is in the moment.
Their wordsI would argue that what makes fiction feel like fiction is a certain degree of contrivance.
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