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Stop Asking Others What They Do for a Living

by Neal Samudre · Feb 22, 2015

“Also a dispute arose among them as to which of them was considered to be the greatest.” –Luke 22:24 Two months after I got married, I lost my job. For an achiever like myself, this was one of the worst things that could happen. I dived into the unemployment season unaware of what it would […]

Getting Over the Urge to Prove Yourself

by Neal Samudre · Jan 8, 2015

At some point in my life, I had mistakenly come to believe that by proving myself worthy to others, I could somehow reach the top. I called this flawed perspective “self-reliance”, and I stuck to it with my whole being. Yet now I know, proving yourself to others is a cheap trick. In the end, […]