In Search of Gumption

In Search of Gumption

Shake off this Sadness and Recover Your Spirit

On the perils and cures of Over-identification

May 04, 2025
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Being healthy, vibrant and alive is to be creative. Creativity, requires coloring outside of the lines that someone (be it a parent, a doctor, or a teacher) once drew for you. These boundaries - that ‘box’ - we’re all trying to think outside of, was once necessary for survival. Creativity requires a willingness —a gumption— to grow beyond it.

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