A private success can be complete without becoming difficult to explain publicly.

LEADERSHIP

WHAT THIS MEANS

Some things are finished the moment they happen, and announcing them adds nothing except a new set of questions. Once it is public, the thing acquires a shape that has to be defended: why that, why now, what next, is it going anywhere. You end up curating an experience that was whole while it was still yours. Not everything you do is material.

If something good happened this week, try letting one of those things stay unshared. Tell one person who will simply be glad, or nobody. See whether the pleasure gets smaller, which it usually does not.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Which win could stay yours alone without losing anything?

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