When making your mind up about someone you do not reduce them to their weakest moments, nor the most recent bad thing they did. You look at patterns: capacities, intentions, tendencies and trajectories, and it is from this you arrive at a much fairer and more honest conclusion.
Controlled people get celebrated faster than sovereign people.
A controlled talent is useful.
A sovereign talent is dangerous.
A controlled talent can be marketed.
A sovereign talent can move people.
That is a different kind of power.
"Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass, anyway." - Earl Nightingale
Chasing "get rich quick" schemes actually puts people behind.
Just started building something meaningful...today.
Time is passing anyway.
If you want something from someone, make it clear what. It's not imposing to ask explicitly for something; it's imposing to be vague and make the recipient work to figure out what you want.
You cannot spend years breaking a child's spirit and then expect a few words in adulthood to repair what took years to destroy. You cannot teach a child to fear your footsteps, your voice, your moods, and your anger, then expect them to see you as a source of comfort later in life.
"Be wrong, be opposed, be remembered..but do not make yourself lesser to be accepted." - Epictetus
Reducing yourself is never the answer.
Be big, take up space
Be bold enough to make people uncomfortable.
"Develop the strength to do bold things, Not the strength to suffer." - Machiavelli
Putting up with garbage isn't heroic,
Taking action against it, is.