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🪄⚡️ “With a little distance, and the knowledge that you survived what had once seemed difficult or even deadly, these moments can take on magical significance.”

⚡️”It’s in that combination of impulse plus execution that the magic happens, I think.”

🪄⚡️ “The thing about people with savior your complexes is this: In order to believe you can save someone else, you have to think you are somehow stronger than they are, or that you are performing a noble or righteous act, or that you are downright magical. As a kid, I definitely believed I was magical, even if I didn’t think very highly of myself.”

Ooh! This is a tough one. It makes me wonder though, what does this have to do with Ego? I need to reread the opening to Chapter 8.