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Themes · 2018

The most important conversations you'll ever have are the ones you'll have with yourself.

— David Goggins ‧ Can't Hurt Me

Two tin cans face each other, joined by taut red thread above a small wooden block against sage green.
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An editorial interpretation.

The saying gives private self-talk greater importance than conversations with anyone else. That ranking directs attention inward, treating one's own voice as a consequential companion. The sweeping wording makes an ordinary experience sound worth taking seriously, without specifying what those inner conversations should contain.

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