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Jessie Randall's avatar

Love this and the Molly reference

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Grace Atwood's avatar

She’s the best!

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Cynthia Wilson's avatar

I liked this article a lot. I will need to read it again to digest all the tidbits. It was full of great advice and instruction! Thank you once again for your wisdom.

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Grace Atwood's avatar

aw I’m glad you liked it! Thanks for the note.

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Invisible Gains's avatar

Great read!

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Grace Atwood's avatar

Thanks!!

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Alexandra Espinal's avatar

Love your book recs, I’m constantly adding them to my Amazon Wishlist! I’m reading Wild Dark Shore now (one of your recs) and I cannot put it down.

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Grace Atwood's avatar

One of my favorites from the year!!!!!

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Lacey Garcia's avatar

3-4 days?! Absolutely not. Haha! But this just made me think of exactly who I can think of when faking it through social situations.

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Grace Atwood's avatar

haha yes, so rough. I am currently hibernating at home all weekend because I faked it, too long!

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The Midst's avatar

Great advice! We'll try this out! "I tune out the comfy, lazy voice and try on a new personality, just for a bit. A new personality that enjoys pushing myself as hard as I can go. That wants to do an extra set."

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Grace Atwood's avatar

yes!!!!!! hope it works :)

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Andrea's avatar

James Frey is such a whiny baby in that Times article. I remember his controversy very well. But the book was good.

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Grace Atwood's avatar

He is, and he’s really leaning into this whole “literary villain” thing. I will say, I finished Next to Heaven last night and it was really good.

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Jody's avatar

I love this and have to do the same extroversion summoning that you describe when small talk is involved. Have you read The Alter Ego Effect? It's a similar concept.

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Grace Atwood's avatar

i haven’t! I’ll check it out!

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Lauren Hopkins's avatar

I absolutely relate to this, Grace! And I practice the same 'channeling' in similar situations. And then after 3-4 days, everyone in my sphere knows I need to hibernate. It's empowering to know how we can push ourselves and what we need to re-charge.

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Grace Atwood's avatar

Yes!!!! I am hibernating so hard this weekend :)

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Smart Romance by Rena Rani's avatar

I love this and the line about not liking plank pass throughs made me laugh out loud. Well observed and well said!

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Grace Atwood's avatar

hahaha :)

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Catherine Martin's avatar

Love this all spelled out… I say I’m an introverted extrovert and you describe it perfectly… & gosh so true- by night 3… D O N E!

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