“Could claiming our “ugliness” and being unafraid to look it in the eye be the key to loving it into genius?”

“And I realized how often the prison I feel is self-imposed. How often I say yes to things and then regret them. Or obsess over how someone perceived my communication. Or have a daily ritual like writing this blog but somehow feel like I can never play hooky. Or worry so much about what people think of me.”

“When we understand our essence, everything about our lives starts to make sense. And we can stop shaming ourselves for being unmistakable, unique geniuses. Every job we ever had—even the “bad ones”—makes total sense. And we take on new perspectives about our relationships.”