We cannot pretend to be someone other than who we are, and much of the controlling, rigid leadership we see in the world today is armour against a sense of failure and weakness.

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It can lead to muscle weakness, blindness, heart failure and in some cases can be fatal.

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Somewhere, I had picked up the idea that asking for help was tantamount to admitting weakness, and ultimately, failure.

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