“Forget about having an identity crisis and get some identity capital. … Do something that adds value to who you are. Do something that's an investment in who you might want to be next.”
“Fear is … a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.”
— Karen Thompson Walker
Karen Thompson Walker: What fear can teach us
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“Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?”
— Karen Thompson Walker
Karen Thompson Walker: What fear can teach us
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“Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination … a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out.”
— Karen Thompson Walker
Karen Thompson Walker: What fear can teach us
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