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Own What Is Yours

traditional wisdom

Responsibility is the refusal to treat our failures, duties, and choices as someone else’s problem. Blame is often accurate about contributing factors. It becomes corrosive when it is used to avoid what remains ours to own. Growth begins where the shifting stops.

How you’d preach it

Maturity includes the willingness to carry what belongs to us without shifting it.

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