When you meet people at business affairs or networking events, do you know who you are really talking to? What people say is not necessarily a reflection of who they most truly are. This happens to me repeatedly: someone will say they are interested in career coaching, but that is not what is really up for them-- it is a much bigger conversation about their life and what matters to them that they really want. People have amazing backgrounds that you might never suspect. Most people have been through a lot. They don't wear their scars or their medals on their faces, but just assume those are there! I am finding these days that people are mostly very interesting heroes in their own lives. This definitely includes young people. It's kind of cool to know that this person in front of you, whom you don't really know yet, may be so much more than what your judging-stereotyping mind may think (and we all do that, it is pretty automatic).
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