🦄 Startups & VC 17h ago · Tommy Baker

There’s a generation of people who were taught to apologize for their needs so effectively that as adults they experience wanting something as a form of aggression against whoever might have to provide it

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There’s a generation of people who were taught to apologize for their needs so effectively that as adults they experience wanting something as a form of aggression against whoever might have to provide it
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Last week I watched a woman at the hardware store apologize four times for asking where the wood glue was. Four times. To a person whose literal job was to tell her where things are. She said “sorry” before the question, “sorry” during, and “sorry to bother you” twice on the way out. She wasn’t awkward. She wasn’t rude. She was someone who had been taught, a long time ago, that needing something from another person was an act of taking.
I stood the

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