Start by taking small steps out of your comfort zone, building your confidence to take bigger, more courageous steps as you move forward.

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Perhaps now, with confidence that a new precedent has been set and an actual well-deserved retirement would not be completely out of the question, someone will be courageous or foolhardy enough to step forward.

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But courageous thinking is also what propels our lives, and our society, forward.

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But this is trying to give them the flexibility to move now going forward and, again, to really raise standards, to do more courageous work, and to support them in that effort, not impede them in that effort.

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