It's about moving beyond our small selves, shifting away from our ego-drenched understanding of reality.

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The reality is that even raising money from people you know can be a long, painful and ego-draining process.

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So as more facts arrive, we should do our level best to look at those facts with fresh eyes, banning the ego defense mechanisms from blinding us to a potentially new, or even simply different, reality.

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