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Why Changing Can Be So Difficult

If personal growth were easy, Medium wouldn’t have such a successful self-improvement arm and I wouldn’t be writing this today.

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Joe Gibson
Dec 19, 2022
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If personal growth were easy, Medium wouldn’t have such a successful self-improvement arm and I wouldn’t be writing this today. Likewise, therapists wouldn’t have jobs, and none of us would be frustrated with how difficult change can really be.

Indeed, pursuing change isn’t for the faint-hearted, and not everyone w…

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