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You say “No”, I hear “Not Right Now”
There are very few things in life that I really don’t like, but hearing someone tell me “no” was probably in my list of top 5 things that bothered me. I know it seems kind of weird, but I was just so used to working hard for things and having the results be positive the majority of the time. When things would not go as I had expected, it would take me longer than is necessary (as I now know) to get over them. I think because I, like many other people reading this, hear “no” to a request or idea and it seems so permanent and final that it makes you feel defeated. It wasn’t until I did an interview for the “When I Grow Up” series for the site that I heard something that changed my entire outlook.




